Nature's Variety Instinct Original Grain-Free Chicken vs. Friskies Indoor Delights

Nature's Variety has a better protein to fat ratio. Friskies's ratio of 3.33 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. Nature's Variety has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches. Friskies is 100% pea-free; Nature's Variety has peas as its 5th ingredient.

Nature's Variety Instinct Original Grain-Free Chicken

Nature's Variety has a better protein to fat ratio. Friskies's ratio of 3.33 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.
Nature's Variety has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches.

Legend

First 10 ingredients:

chicken chicken meal turkey meal menhaden fish meal peas chicken fat tapioca natural flavor dried tomato pomace montmorillonite clay

Friskies Indoor Delights

Friskies is 100% pea-free; Nature's Variety has peas as its 5th ingredient.

First 10 ingredients:

ground yellow corn corn gluten meal chicken by-product meal soybean meal beef tallow powdered cellulose soybean hulls liver flavor meat and bone meal calcium carbonate