Nature's Variety Instinct Limited Ingredient Diet Grain-Free Turkey vs. 9 Lives Kitten Essentials Chicken & Ocean Fish Dry Cat Food

Nature's Variety 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.) Nature's Variety has slightly fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing. 9 Lives has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches. 9 Lives is 100% pea-free; Nature's Variety has peas as its 2nd ingredient.

Nature's Variety Instinct Limited Ingredient Diet Grain-Free Turkey

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

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First 10 ingredients:

turkey meal peas turkey tapioca canola oil natural flavor coconut oil salt montmorillonite clay choline chloride

9 Lives Kitten Essentials Chicken & Ocean Fish Dry Cat Food

9 Lives has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches.
9 Lives is 100% pea-free; Nature's Variety has peas as its 2nd ingredient.

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