Original Ultra Chicken Meal & Salmon Meal
Natural Balance Original Ultra Chicken Meal & Salmon Meal is a dry adult cat food with grains. Its first ingredients are chicken meal, brown rice and chicken. It has an Ingredients score of 73/100, a Nutrition score of 9.5/10 and nothing on our Avoid List. The lowest price we found is $3.73/lb (15 lb bag at Chewy).
Label checked Nov 1, 2026 · Price checked Oct 29, 2026
How It Scores
The first 5 ingredients count for 70%, the rest for 30%.
- Chicken Meal
- 5 / 5
- Named animal protein
- Brown Rice
- 2 / 5
- Grain, potato or other carb source
- Chicken
- 5 / 5
- Named animal protein
- Chicken Fat (Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols)
- 4 / 5
- Named animal fat
- Brewers Dried Yeast
- 3 / 5
- Yeast
- Other ingredients
- 3.4 / 5
- Average of the other 25 ingredients
Avoid List
0The label lists none of the additives we count.
The number of unwanted additives on the label, counted separately from the two scores: 0 is best. How we score
Adult targets. Values as listed on the label.
- Protein 34%
- 4.8 / 5
- Full points between 35% and 45%
- Fat 16.8%
- 5 / 5
- Full points between 15% and 22%
- Carbohydrates 29.2%
- 4.2 / 5
- Full points between 15% and 25%. Our estimate: the label does not list ash.
- Fiber 3%
- not scored
- Shown for information.
What Is in It
Dry matter means the food with the water taken out. It lets you compare foods with different moisture fairly.
| On the label | Dry matter | |
|---|---|---|
| Protein (min) | 34% | 37.8% |
| Fat (min) | 16.8% | 18.7% |
| Fiber (max) | 3% | 3.3% |
| Ash | not listed | - |
| Carbohydrates (estimate) | 29.2% | 32.4% |
| Moisture (max) | 10% | - |
| Calories | ≈ 3,605 kcal/kg (our estimate) | |
Label numbers are limits, not exact amounts: protein and fat are minimums, fiber and moisture are maximums.
Labels do not list carbohydrates, and this one does not list ash either. We estimate carbohydrates by assuming 7% ash, a typical value for dry cat food, and subtracting everything else from 100.
First 5 Ingredients
Ingredients are listed by weight, heaviest first. The first few usually make up most of the food.
All Ingredients (Label Order)
Chicken Meal, Brown Rice, Chicken, Chicken Fat (Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Brewers Dried Yeast, Oat Groats, Chicken Liver, Salmon Meal, Natural Flavor, Menhaden Fish Oil (Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Dried Vegetable Broth, Pea Fiber, Oat Fiber, Choline Chloride, Salt, DL-Methionine, Potassium Chloride, Vitamins [Vitamin E Supplement, Ascorbic Acid, Niacin Supplement, Vitamin A Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, d-Calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Folic Acid, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Biotin], Taurine, Minerals [Zinc Proteinate, Zinc Sulfate, Ferrous Sulfate, Iron Proteinate, Copper Sulfate, Copper Proteinate, Sodium Selenite, Manganese Sulfate, Manganese Proteinate, Calcium Iodate], L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate, L-Tryptophan, Cranberries, Citric Acid (Preservative), Mixed Tocopherols (Preservative), Blueberries, Dried Kelp, Yucca Schidigera Extract, L-Lysine Monohydrochloride, Rosemary Extract
Estimated Monthly Cost
We could not find the maker's feeding chart, so there is no monthly estimate. Price per pound in the cheapest bag: $3.73.
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Data source: The package does not list calorie content. Calories (about 3,605 kcal/kg) are our estimate from the guaranteed analysis with a standard formula, assuming 8% ash. The feeding chart uses 4 to 7, 7 to 10 and 10 to 16 lb rows; we use the middle of the closest row.
Last checked: Nov 1, 2026 ·Maker's page ·Suggest a correction