Can people safely eat cat food?

The American Dietetic Association did a study to see if humans could eat cat food.

I found this article on popsci.com:

Let's take a look at the ingredients in a typical can of cat food: meat by-products, chicken by-product meal, turkey by-product meal, ash, taurine.

Nothing too horrible, but in general, these things don't constitute a healthy human diet, says Dawn Jackson Blatner, a registered dietitian with the American Dietetic Association.

"That said, I'm fully confident that your body can handle kitty chow."

Your liver, kidneys and skin do a terrific job of removing foreign substances from the body, especially mild ones like those found in cat food.

"Technically, you could safely digest a baseball," Blatner says. Perhaps the worst stuff in cat food is the high mineral content in the ash, but your body would clear that out quickly.

Actually, the ingredients listed on the organic blends of cat food sound pretty tasty.

There is a pet shop near where I live that sells Applaws Natural Cat Food.

To show us how natural it is the shopowner opened up a can and started to eat it.

I got some for Charlie and he loves it. His favourite food is cheese.