Gourmet cat food for older cats
Gourmet's cat food range — Gold, Perle, Revelations and the rest — is built around adult cats generally rather than split out by life stage, so there is no single 'Gourmet Senior' product to point to. That does not rule the brand out for an older cat; it just means looking at texture and ingredients on individual recipes rather than a life-stage label on the pack.
What Gourmet actually offers
The range covers a wide spread of wet food styles for cats — pate, mousse, fillets in jelly or gravy, and soup-style pouches — under sub-ranges like Gold, Perle, Revelations and Mon Petit. Most of it is formulated as a complete food for adult cats without a separate kitten or senior version.
That is fairly common across the mid-range wet cat food shelf; several well-known brands run one general adult formulation rather than a full set of life-stage-specific recipes, and Gourmet sits in that camp rather than being unusual.
What suits an older cat within the range
Softer textures like pate, mousse and pouches in gravy or sauce tend to suit older cats better than anything requiring more chewing, particularly if dental issues or a reduced appetite have become a factor with age. Several Gourmet lines are built around exactly these softer, easy-to-eat textures already.
If your cat has a diagnosed condition that needs a specific senior or therapeutic formulation — kidney support being the most common example in older cats — that is a conversation for your vet rather than something a general adult wet food, Gourmet or otherwise, is designed to address.
For this need
Everything below is in stock with us, priced with delivery worked out, and packed and posted by hand in the UK.
Gourmet Perle Pouches 7+ Senior Cat Mini Fillets in Gravy 40pk
Wet food pouches for senior cats, in gravy, 40 to a box
£23.65
Gourmet Perle 7+ Senior Cat Chef's Choice 12pk
Complete wet pouches for senior cats aged 7 and over, 12 x 85g, in a delicate gravy
£7.75
Gourmet Gold Pate Ocean Fish — 12 x 85g Tins
Sold as a case: 12 x 85g tins. An ocean fish pâté for adult cats, smooth-textured for cats that turn down chunks in jelly
£8.99
Gourmet Revelations Mousse Chicken 4pk
Complete chicken mousse wet cat food in 57G pots with cascading gravy
£2.95
Gourmet Perle Delighters Collection in Gravy 40pk
A multi-flavour collection of adult cat food pouches in gravy, 40 to a box
£23.65
Gourmet Mon Petit Intense Tuna, Salmon, Trout 6pk
Complete adult cat food in 50G pouches with tuna, salmon and trout recipes
£2.85
Gourmet Revelations Mousse Salmon 4pk
Complete salmon mousse wet cat food in 57G pots with cascading gravy
£2.95
Gourmet Mon Petit Intense Beef, Chicken, Lamb 6pk
Complete adult cat food in 50G pouches with beef, chicken and lamb recipes
£2.85
Gourmet Gold Chicken and Liver Chunks in Gravy — 12 x 85g Tins
Sold as a case: 12 x 85g tins. Complete Gourmet Gold Chicken and Liver Chunks in Gravy wet cat food in an 85G can
£8.99
Gourmet Mon Petit Intense Duck, Chicken, Turkey 6pk
Complete adult cat food in 50G pouches with duck, chicken and turkey recipes
£2.85
Gourmet Gold Savoury Cake Tuna — 12 x 85g Tins
Sold as a case: 12 x 85g tins. Complete Gourmet Gold Savoury Cake Tuna wet cat food in an 85G can
£8.69
Gourmet Gold Savoury Cake Chicken — 12 x 85g Tins
Sold as a case: 12 x 85g tins. Complete Gourmet Gold Savoury Cake Chicken wet cat food in an 85G can
£8.69
Common questions
- Does Gourmet make a senior cat food?
- Not as a dedicated life-stage line — the range is formulated for adult cats generally. Some recipes, particularly the softer pate and mousse textures, suit older cats well in practice even without a 'senior' label on the pack.
- Is Gourmet suitable for a cat with dental problems?
- The softer pate, mousse and jelly-based recipes in the range are generally easier for a cat with dental discomfort to eat than anything drier or chunkier, though a cat showing signs of dental pain should still be seen by a vet rather than managed on diet alone.
- What's the difference between Gourmet Gold and Gourmet Perle?
- Both are wet cat food sub-ranges with different flavour collections and textures — Gold leans toward pate and savoury cake styles, while Perle covers fillet and delicacy-style pouches. Neither is life-stage specific; the difference is mainly in format and flavour.
- Should I switch an older cat to a senior-specific food instead?
- If your cat has no diagnosed condition, a general adult food with a texture they find easy to eat can suit them fine into their senior years. If they have a specific health issue, ask your vet whether a targeted therapeutic diet would suit them better than a general range.
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Written by Matt Garnett, who runs Giddy Pets and is a lifelong pet owner — not a vet. This is general information, not veterinary advice, and it cannot replace an examination by the vet who knows your animal. How we write these guides.