Nature's Variety Instinct Original Grain-Free Chicken vs. Hipaws Freeze-Dried Meat Bites Duck Recipe

Nature's Variety has a better protein to fat ratio. Hipaws's ratio of 5.25 to 1 is too high (not fatty enough). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.) Hipaws has slightly fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing. Hipaws has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches. Hipaws 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. Hipaws's ratio of 5.25 to 1 is too high (not fatty enough). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.)

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First 10 ingredients:

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

Hipaws Freeze-Dried Meat Bites Duck Recipe

Hipaws has slightly fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing.
Hipaws has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches.
Hipaws is 100% pea-free; Nature's Variety has peas as its 5th ingredient.

First 10 ingredients:

duck breast duck heart duck liver fish oil calcium carbonate dicalcium phosphate potassium chloride sodium chloride fructo-oligosaccharides vitamin e