Nature's Variety Instinct Original Grain-Free Chicken vs. Mazuri Ferret Diet

Nature's Variety has a better protein to fat ratio. However, Mazuri's ratio is not bad. (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.) Nature's Variety has fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing. Nature's Variety has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches. Mazuri is 100% pea-free; Nature's Variety has peas as its 5th ingredient. Mazuri contains controversial ingredients.

Nature's Variety Instinct Original Grain-Free Chicken

Nature's Variety has a better protein to fat ratio. However, Mazuri's ratio is not bad. (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.)
Nature's Variety has fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing.
Nature's Variety has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches.
Mazuri contains controversial ingredients.

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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

Mazuri Ferret Diet

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

First 10 ingredients:

poultry by-product meal ground brown rice dehulled soybean meal porcine animal fat spray dried animal blood cells poultry fat glutamic acid dried beet pulp soy protein concentrate soybean oil