I tried adding sweet potato to one of my cat's raw food for a while, I think at the time he had blood in his stool and I read online it might help. Anyway, he never, ever touched it and I eventually stopped bothering. It is very difficult to make a cat eat something it does not want to eat.
In my experience, cats DO often eat the stomach contents of their prey, as well as feathers, fur, feet, etc...what significance this has to their nutrition I don't know; but really I can't imagine a bit of pumpkin accurately mimics what a cat gets from eating the partially digested contents of their prey's stomach anyway. I feed an all meat raw mix myself.
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