Virbac HPM Cat W1 Weight Loss & Diabetes

Virbac HPM Cat W1 Weight Loss & Diabetes - Food for weight loss and diabetes in cats

Virbac HPM Cat W1 Weight Loss & Diabetes is a specially adapted food for cats suffering from obesity or diabetes. The food has a low energy density, which contributes to effective weight loss while maintaining muscle mass and improving body composition. With its high protein content and low carbohydrate content, it is ideal for regulating blood sugar and promoting a healthy weight.

Key benefits and features

• Low energy density: The diet's low energy density helps achieve rapid and effective weight loss (effect documented by Virbac).
• Joint Support: Contains chondroitin sulfate and chitosan which can help support joints and improve your cat's mobility and quality of life.
• Improves muscle tissue/fat tissue ratio: The Low Carb High Protein (LCHP) composition helps preserve muscle tissue and maintain an ideal body composition after weight loss (effect documented by Virbac).
• High crude fiber content: Increased fiber content improves satiety and helps your cat stay fuller for longer.
• Low glycemic index and low sugar content: The LCHP composition, with small amounts of starch and sugar, reduces the impact of the meal on blood sugar and insulin, making it suitable for cats with diabetes and insulin resistance.
• Fat burning: L-carnitine is added to promote fat burning, while helping to preserve muscle mass during weight loss.
• Increased levels of vitamins and trace elements (15% more): Enriched with vitamins and minerals to ensure adequate nutrition, even with small rations and feed restrictions.
• Controlled palatability: High content of animal protein and fat meets the carnivore's natural preferences, ensuring good palatability for the cat.

Nutrition for carnivores

Cats are carnivores, which is why the Virbac HPM® therapeutic range is based on the HP-protein – low carbohydrate (HP-LC) principle. This means a low amount of carbohydrates and a high protein content, with more than 90% of the protein coming from animal origin. The result is nutrition that is perfectly adapted to the cat's natural needs.

• 44% High in protein of which 94 % animal protein
• 18% Low in carbohydrates

Composition

Dehydrated pork and poultry protein, potato starch*, crude fiber, hydrolyzed pork and poultry protein, minerals, animal fat, linseed, beet pulp, brewer's yeast, psyllium fiber (Plantago (L.) spp.), fructo-oligosaccharides, hydrolyzed crustaceans (source of chitosan), chondroitin sulfate, Lactobacillus acidophilus.
*Carbohydrate sources.

Analytical constituents

• Protein: 44%
• Fat: 11%
• Ash: 8.5%
• Crude fiber: 13%
• Total dietary fiber: 18%
• Starch: 12.5%
• Total sugars: 1%
• Calcium: 1.3%
• Phosphorus: 0.9%
• Sodium: 0.9%
• Omega-6 fatty acids: 2%
• Omega-3 fatty acids: 0.7%

Important nutritional values

• Metabolizable energy (kcal/100g): 306
• Protein digestibility (in vivo; %): 84
• Fat digestibility (in vivo; %): 94
• Energy from protein (%): 50
• Energy from fat (%): 30
• Energy from NFE (%): 20
• Protein/calorie ratio (g/Mcal): 133

Functional ingredients

• Bentonite: 5 g/kg
• Heat-treated Lactobacilli: 7 mg/kg
• Chitosan: 800 mg/kg
• L-carnitine: 540 mg/kg
• Chondroitin sulfate: 440 mg/kg