Adult Cat Food

Updated: 3/24/2025

Every cat deserves food made for them. Purina formulates food to meet your cat’s needs and preferences while promoting their health. Find some of the best cat food for adult cats. Most kittens become adult cats on their first birthday, or, for larger breeds, between 18 and 24 months. Whenever it’s time to switch to adult cat food, Purina offers you a wide range of options for adult cat food, ensuring they are covered no matter their size, breed and personal dietary and lifestyle needs. Our dry and wet cat foods, including choices for sensitive skin and stomach, urinary tract health, weight management and more, are formulated by veterinary experts to provide specific health benefits. With hundreds of adult cat food options, we can help you find the Purina adult cat food for your cat. 

Why Adult Cat Food?

To thrive in adulthood, cats need quality, nutritionally balanced meals. They need tailored food for adult cats. Looking for top-rated adult cat food textures, flavors and formulas they’re bound to love, including options for many different feline dietary needs and preferences? We can help.

Cats need adult cat food to support their health, which includes maintaining the proper levels of vitamins and minerals, avoiding excess weight gain and maintaining healthy muscle mass. To meet these needs, adult cats require food formulated for them. When choosing the best adult cat food for your cat, talk to your veterinarian to make choices tailored to their needs.

With Purina, you’ll find the food your adult cat needs to stay well-fed and thrive. We provide a wide range of dry and wet adult cat food options to fuel the health and happiness of your cat.

Benefits of Adult Cat Food

Nutritionally balanced and complete for adult cats
Helps cats maintain optimal levels of vitamins and minerals
Supports healthy weight
Wide selection of texture and flavor options to meet adult cats’ wants and needs
Contains real meat
Formulas meet size, breed, lifestyle and dietary needs

Best Adult Cat Foods

Let’s explore a few quick tips on picking some of the best adult cat food for your cat by looking at a few examples of our various forms of adult cat food.

Chunky

Chunky adult cat food comes in tender, meaty chunks doused in mouthwatering gravy for a taste cats love that, as with all wet food, also helps support their hydration. Shop our chunky adult cat food featuring real chicken, turkey, beef and more.

Crunchy Kibble

If your cat desires crispy, crunchy bites, browse our crunchy kibble. Kibble is also a great way to help clean your cat’s teeth. We have options featuring chicken, lamb, salmon, turkey, whitefish and more, with specialized formulas for indoor cats, hairball control, sensitive skin and stomach, weight management, grain-free dietary preferences, urinary tract health, prescription gastrointestinal support and adult cats 7+ years old. Allergen-reducing formulas are available in various flavors and for different dietary preferences.

Filets

Give your cat a delightful dining experience of meaty and tender chunks of wet cat food to supplement their hydration. We offer options featuring chicken, beef, ocean whitefish, salmon, turkey and more tasty balanced nutrition.

Flaked

Our flaked cat food for adult cats also provides complete nutrition, including supplemental hydration. Delight your cat with various choices, including flaked chicken and tuna, flaked tuna and mackerel, flaked fish and shrimp, flaked trout feast, flaked tuna feast, and more.

Grilled

For another delicious and hydrating wet food meal selection for your adult cat, try offering your cat grilled cuts made with real, high-quality beef, chicken, turkey, tuna and more with no artificial preservatives. We also provide exceptional grilled gourmet taste in convenient twin packs with two single servings.

Ground

Try our hydrating ground adult cat food for a classic wet texture that cats love. Options range from a ground adult cat food made with salmon to beef, chicken, duck, turkey, tuna, ocean whitefish, arctic char and more. Our ground adult cat food caters to various dietary needs and preferences, including urinary care, grain-free, hairball control, weight management and sensitive skin and stomach.

In Gravy

We have many different wet cat food textures and flavors doused in gravy for your cat’s enjoyment. This food form is a hit, especially during the holiday season, while pet parents create gravy for themselves. Our nutrient-rich and hydrating adult cat food in gravy includes recipes featuring chicken, turkey, beef, sole, tuna, salmon, ocean whitefish and more. Formulas are available to cater to various dietary needs and wants, including urinary tract health, indoor, and more. We also offer a variety of convenient twin packs containing two entrées of our adult cat food morsels in gravy and different gravy-doused textures for your cat to enjoy, such as mousse paté, moist shreds and extra gravy.

In Sauce

Treat your cat to delicious chicken and tuna in savory, hydrating sauce. Featured meats include wild-caught cod, tuna, salmon, sole, shrimp, trout, sardines, haddock, chicken and more. We provide options to cater to ideal weight, indoor lifestyle needs and more, and varying texture preferences, including chunky, shreds and more.

Morsels

Cats savor our hydrating, marinated, meaty morsels featuring high-quality chicken, turkey, beef, tuna and salmon. We also offer flavorful medleys such as our Tuscany and Florentine collections in a delicate sauce.

Paté

Though our adult cat food paté is a hit year-round, it may be especially desired during the holidays when pâté for humans may be a popular appetizer among house guests. We offer a wide variety of moisture-rich adult cat food paté entrées, featuring ocean whitefish, chicken, turkey, tuna, salmon, beef and more with specialized formulas to feed adult cats who are indoor cats needing help minimizing hairballs, cats on a grain-free diet, urinary tract support and more. We also have varying textures and medleys, such as options with a gourmet gravy center, mousse paté or classic paté doused in gravy. For convenient single servings, we also offer paté twin packs.

Roasted

The adult cat food with roasted chicken is another 100% complete savory wet food option for your cat to try, available as a part of a variety pack crafted with high-quality, real chicken. It also provides adult cats with supplemental hydration.

Shredded Blend

If your cat enjoys a variety of textures, try our shredded blend varieties. Our dry, shredded blend adult cat foods are a mix of crunchy kibble and tender bites featuring chicken, salmon, ocean whitefish and turkey. Dietary needs or preferences include formulas for indoor cats and grain-free formulas. We also provide various hydrating, shredded, wet adult cat food medleys.

Sliced

Try our sliced varieties of adult cat food if your cat craves larger, meaty chunks than the options above. It’s also wet food, so it provides hydration support. Our sliced entrées for adult cats feature beef, chicken, turkey and more, all doused in a nutrient-rich gravy that cats love.

Learn More About Adult Cat Food and Feeding Recommendations

When to Switch from Kitten Food to Cat Food

Cats reach adult cat food age once they reach adult maturity. Small and medium-sized cat breeds, including most cats, reach adulthood at about a year old. Large cat breeds, for example, may reach adult maturity at about 18 months to 2 years old. Learn more about when to switch to adult cat food from our experts here.

What Makes a Healthy Cat Food?

Healthy cat food must meet Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) standards and contain certain essential nutrients, including vitamins and minerals, Omega fatty acids, dietary fats and protein. Our experts can help you find the healthiest food for your cat here.

Tips for Feeding Cats

Check out our resources with essential tips for feeding adult cats. Purina experts answer crucial, common questions about the best portion sizes and food choices, including the difference between kitten and adult cat food. Learn from our experts here how to feed your cat the best diet for them.

Quality Ingredients

We carefully select cat food ingredients to support the nutrition your cat needs to live their best life possible. If you’ve ever wondered what the ingredients in your pet’s food do, read on to find out.

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