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Originally Posted by billyboysmammy
Cats need the organ meat as it contains higher amounts of taurine essential in a cats diet compared to the relatively low tauring levels in muscle meat.
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Taurine is in high concentration in all muscle meats especially in Heart but in lower concentrations in offal.
Taurine Content of Selected Foods (mg/kg, wet weight)
taken from Nutrient Requirements of Cats, Revised Edition, 1986 which in turn
has adapted from Roe and Weston, 1965, Potential significance of free taurine in the diet, Nature, 205:287.
Item Uncooked Mean Range
Clams 2400 1450-3700
Oysters 698 390-1238
Pork muscle 496 394-690
Lamb muscle 473 446-510
Beef muscle 362 150-472
Chicken muscle 337 300-380
Cod Fish 314 233-396
Lamb kidney 239 128-440
Beef kidney 225 180-247
Beef liver 192 144-270
Pork liver 169 110-228