Nature's Variety Instinct Raw Meals Chicken vs. Burgess Excel Ferret Nuggets

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Burgess has a better protein to fat ratio. Nature's Variety's ratio of 1.12 to 1 is too low (too fatty). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.) Nature's Variety has slightly fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing. Both foods are mostly free of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches. Both foods are pea-free.

Nature's Variety Instinct Raw Meals Chicken

Nature's Variety has slightly fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing.

Legend

First 10 ingredients:

chicken chicken liver chicken heart pumpkinseeds ground flaxseed montmorillonite clay salmon oil carrots apples butternut squash

Burgess Excel Ferret Nuggets

Burgess has a better protein to fat ratio. Nature's Variety's ratio of 1.12 to 1 is too low (too fatty). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.)

First 10 ingredients:

poultry meal rice poultry fat fish meal hydrolysed poultry meal brewer’s yeast beet pulp poultry gravy salt short chain fructo-oligosaccharides 0.25%

 

Nature's Variety Instinct Raw Meals Chicken

Freeze-Dried Raw

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Burgess Excel Ferret Nuggets

Kibble

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Score
A+
Score
C
Food Type Freeze-Dried Raw Kibble
Meat % 93% Unknown
Protein % 38% 38%
Fat % 34% 20%
Fiber % 3% 1%
Protein to Fat Ratio 1.12 to 1 1.9 to 1
Total Ingredients 13 14
Meat Content 3 total
high concentration, high quality
4 total
low quality
Non-Meats 7 total
low concentration
2 total
low concentration
Pea-free Yes Yes
Sugar-free Yes Yes
Controversial ingredient-free Yes Yes
 

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