Evidence: dental / oral-health diets in cats
Source: Europe PMC (Europe PubMed Central) REST search — first-hand peer-reviewed abstract records, pulled 2026-07-22. Query: (dental OR "oral health" OR tartar OR "dental diet") AND cat AND diet AND HAS_ABSTRACT:"Y". The cluster returns 1 records in Europe PMC; 6 representative studies are extracted below. Abstract text is verbatim from source; each study is traceable by PMID.
Studies
- PMID 42071988 (2026, Animals : an open access journal from MDPI) — Advances in Functional Pet Food Research: Health-Driven Ingredients, Nutritional Targets and Evidence-Based Claims.. Functional pet food has grown rapidly, in line with the accelerated humanization of pets, growing attention to relations between diet and health, and mounting sustainability awareness. *[CC BY — Open Access, verbatim with attribution.]*
Source text: pdf-raw/evidence/europepmc_feline_dental_diet_2026-07-22.txt (Europe PMC first-hand abstracts, pulled 2026-07-22).
License & attribution
Mixed licensing per COPYRIGHT_POLICY §3: Open Access (CC BY / CC BY-NC / CC BY-NC-ND) studies are reproduced verbatim with attribution under their specific CC license; non-Open-Access studies are paraphrased as derived fact summaries (numbers and proper nouns preserved, sentences rewritten). Original records:
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42071988/
Cleaning removal log (2026-08-05, codebuddy)
PMID 42167025 — Human context: nanozyme engineering for oral health management, no pet/animal subject named. PMID 42209717 — Human subject: patients' clear aligner (orthodontic) treatment needs, no feline content. PMID 42319490 — Lab-model organism: gestational protein restriction / odontogenesis study, no cat/pet subject named (likely rodent model). PMID 41424657 — Human subject: ORASPORT endurance-athlete oral microbiology study, no feline content. PMID 42031231 — Self-labeled off-topic: human paediatric fluoride-exposure intervention in Colombia, mis-clustered into feline dental diet.