Smalls Bird Recipe vs. 9 Lives Kitten Essentials Chicken & Ocean Fish Dry Cat Food
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Smalls has a better protein to fat ratio. 9 Lives's ratio of 3.04 to 1 is too high (not fatty enough). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.) Smalls has fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing. Smalls has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches. Both foods are pea-free.
Smalls Bird Recipe
Smalls has a better protein to fat ratio. 9 Lives's ratio of 3.04 to 1 is too high (not fatty enough). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.)
Smalls has fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing.
Smalls has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches.
First 10 ingredients:
finely ground chicken with bone chicken heart chicken liver chicken gizzard chicken egg goat’s milk water eggshell membrane herring oil mixed tocopherols
9 Lives Kitten Essentials Chicken & Ocean Fish Dry Cat Food
First 10 ingredients:
whole ground corn chicken by-product meal corn protein meal soybean meal animal fat whole wheat ocean fish meal natural flavor dicalcium phosphate salt
Smalls Bird RecipeFreeze-Dried Raw |
9 Lives Kitten Essentials Chicken & Ocean Fish Dry Cat FoodKibble |
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Score
A+ |
Score
F |
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| Food Type | Freeze-Dried Raw | Kibble |
| Meat % | 98% | Unknown |
| Protein % | 45% | 38% |
| Fat % | 15% | 12.5% |
| Fiber % | 3% | 2.5% |
| Protein to Fat Ratio | 3 to 1 | 3.04 to 1 |
| Total Ingredients | 9 | 16 |
| Meat Content |
5 total
high concentration, high quality |
3 total
low concentration, low quality |
| Non-Meats | None |
3 total
low concentration |
| Pea-free | Yes | Yes |
| Sugar-free | Yes | Yes |
| Controversial ingredient-free | Yes | Yes |
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