Dangerous ingredients?

[Vivid Dawn]

There's a big sale at Petco, and I can get 20% off my whole purchase. I actually have extra money in my checking account, so I'm gonna go stock up now.

I've been looking at the ingredients of the select foods that are on sale. Halo looks like a decent food...BUT! There's "garlic powder" as the last ingredient. I thought garlic was bad for cats? Since it is the last ingredient (supposedly meaning there's very little of it) and diluted in all the other stuff... is it safe this way?
I've heard you're not supposed to let cats have things with garlic in them, like spaghetti sauce... so why is it in Halo canned food?
Should I not buy Halo? Other than the garlic issue, it seems like it's a rather decent choice. (except I know Paizly will leave all the peas at the bottom of the bowl. She's done it before with another food I bought a while ago that had peas and carrots in it)

[Muzby]

If I fed canned, I would likely use it. My cats eat human treats (pizza, pasta, etc) sometimes that have garlic in them. If you used this in a large rotation I don't see it being a problem.

[Vivid Dawn]

There are several other kinds I will get, such as Holistic Select, Natural Balance, Nature's Variety, Wellness and Nutro Max & Nutro Natural Choice. So even if I don't get Halo at all, it's not like they'll starve

I will also not get anything with fish in it. I'm probably going to get ones that have fish oil (I think one of the above choices has herring oil), but not actual fish. I've heard it's all bad for cats, not just tuna.

[Pixall]

I use Halo's freeze dried treats if that helps. :p Honestly so many pet foods use garlic it isn't even funny. I'm sure it would be fine in that small of a dose.

[YayHappens]

What I have read about garlic is that the garlic oil or raw garlic is actually what is dangerous for them. As for garlic powder, it is one of the ingredients they use an an antioxidant in cat foods. There is little to no volatile oil in it to consider it poisonous although it can possibly cause some heartburn or indigestion in some kitties.

Their fish products are Ethoxyquin-free from an E-free source. The chemical is noted to be the problem with most fish including tuna. But that is not to say that their source or supplier will never change.

I just switched my cats off of Halo for a different brand. One cat was fine on it, and the other was having issues digesting it but they both loved the food. They ate it for months and I loved that it had such a variety of flavors.

I had actually started them off first on Blue, then went to Wellness, then Halo and they liked all of them. I went with Halo because the savings on it with coupons, sales, and other things ended up making it cheaper per ounce between two cats than the others and then found one that was even better on all points but it is difficult to find in a physical retail store.

Just an FYI, Nature's Variety has lecithin in it which, unless specified as otherwise, comes from soy. If they took that out of there I would have used it!

[Vivid Dawn]

I didn't get Nature's Variety... even on sale it's out of my budget (tried to stick to under $1 per 5 oz cans).
Holistic Select was $1.62 (sale+coupon), but that was for a big 13 oz can, so I got a few of those.