SENSORY™: More than just a meal, an experience for cats
Have you ever wondered how your cat experiences the world? A cat’ssenses are their gateway to the world. How those senses are stimulatedultimately determines how your cat feels. That means, mealtime and nutritionare important for their overall health. Keep reading to learn how you can offeryour cat a better sensory experience and help to improve their well-being everyday.
FEEL STIMULATION
Stimulates cats’ mouthfeel with a unique texture. During meals,the sensation of different textures in the cats’ mouth has a strong influenceover their feeding experience. The formula is crafted with unique textures tostimulate cat’s sense of mouthfeel.
SENSORY STIMULATION
A cat’s well-being is enhanced when their diet provides sensorialvariation. ROYAL CANIN® SENSORY™ helps to stimulate cats’ senses and enhancestheir feeding experience.
INSTINCTIVELY PREFERRED
Formulated to match the optimal macronutrient profileinstinctively preferred by adult cats.
URINARY HEALTH
Helps to support a healthy urinary system.
SENSORY™ SMELL
Stimulate their sense of smell
Smell is the feline’s superpower. Cats possess 200 millionodour-sensitive cells in the nose while humans only have 5 million. Given thatdeveloped sense of smell, your cat’s first contact with food is through theirnose and all those powerful and numerous olfactive receptors, which puts a lotof pressure on that first aromatic impression! This initial contact is furtherenhanced by sniffing: the more your cat sniffs, the more molecules they candetect. If a cat is greatly attracted to their food’s aroma, they will sniffless and begin eating immediately, making mealtimes easier and more enjoyable.As a result, that first impression is key to ensuring the feeding ritual issmooth and facilitates the consumption of the right amount of energy for yourcat, in addition to being enjoyable.
As a result, Royal Canin’s Sensory™ Smell formulas are craftedwith an aromatic profile made from sustainable fish characterized by fatty,fruity, and nutty odours that are highly attractive to a cat’s sense of smell.The aroma’s profile has a composition technology that allows flavours todiffuse more rapidly and intensely around the food, making for a successfulstart to the meal and an overall immersive experience for your cat.
SENSORY™ TASTE
Unlock their sense of taste
Although your cat’s sense of taste isn’t the strongest due tohaving fewer taste buds, it is nevertheless uniquely specialized. They areparticularly perceptive of subtle food flavours, especially umami. Umami isoften described as a broth-like, or savoury taste that is found especially inmeats. Amino acids are critical to obtaining an umami flavour, which isindependent of the other four traditional basic tastes — sweet, sour, salty,and bitter. Because of their carnivorous predisposition, cats are sensitive tothe meaty flavours associated with umami. Royal Canin’s Sensory™ Taste formulas are crafted with a chicken tastecharacterized by toasted, meaty, sulfurous and caramelized hints that willstimulate your cat’s unique sense of taste.
SENSORY™ FEEL
Reinforce their sense of texture
During meals, the sensation of different textures in your cat’smouth strongly influences their feeding experience. This sensory characteristicknown as mouthfeel involves the detection of a wide range of physical stimuliinside the mouth. It involves a food’s entire physical and chemical interactionwith the mouth from the first bite and initial perception on the palate, ontomastication, and the concluding act of swallowing. In other words, eating is atactile experience as much, if not more, than a gustative one, for cats. That’swhy Royal Canin’s Sensory™ Feel improves mouthfeel, further stimulating yourcat’s senses whilst bringing surprise and enrichment to mealtime. Its formulasare crafted with unique gravy and jelly textures that are creamier with asmoother coating that will last longer in your cat’s mouth. The unique texturealso includes more stringy meat-like chunks which appeal to cats and providevariation in textural sensations throughout your cat’s meal.
