IAMS Proactive Health Healthy Kitten vs. Burgess Excel Ferret Nuggets

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Burgess has a better protein to fat ratio. IAMS's ratio of 1.57 to 1 is too low (too fatty). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.) Burgess has slightly fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing. Burgess has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches. Both foods are pea-free.

IAMS Proactive Health Healthy Kitten

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First 10 ingredients:

chicken chicken by-product meal ground whole grain corn ground sorghum chicken fat corn gluten meal dried plain beet pulp natural flavor dried egg product potassium chloride

Burgess Excel Ferret Nuggets

Burgess has a better protein to fat ratio. IAMS's ratio of 1.57 to 1 is too low (too fatty). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.)
Burgess has slightly fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing.
Burgess has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches.

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%

 

IAMS Proactive Health Healthy Kitten

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Burgess Excel Ferret Nuggets

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Score
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Score
C
Food Type Kibble Kibble
Meat % Unknown Unknown
Protein % 33% 38%
Fat % 21% 20%
Fiber % 3% 1%
Protein to Fat Ratio 1.57 to 1 1.9 to 1
Total Ingredients 16 14
Meat Content 5 total
high quality
4 total
low quality
Non-Meats 4 total
low concentration
2 total
low concentration
Pea-free Yes Yes
Sugar-free Yes Yes
Controversial ingredient-free Yes Yes
 
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