Nature's Variety Instinct Original Grain-Free Duck vs. Lily's Kitchen Smooth Paté for Kittens Chicken

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Nature's Variety has a better protein to fat ratio. However, Lily's Kitchen's ratio is not bad. (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.) Lily's Kitchen has much fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing. Both foods are 100% free of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches. Lily's Kitchen is 100% pea-free; Nature's Variety has peas as its 9th ingredient.

Nature's Variety Instinct Original Grain-Free Duck

Nature's Variety has a better protein to fat ratio. However, Lily's Kitchen's ratio is not bad. (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.)

Legend

First 10 ingredients:

duck turkey meal chicken meal chicken fat white fish meal pacific whiting pacific sole pacific rockfish peas tapioca

Lily's Kitchen Smooth Paté for Kittens Chicken

Lily's Kitchen has much fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing.
Lily's Kitchen is 100% pea-free; Nature's Variety has peas as its 9th ingredient.

First 10 ingredients:

freshly prepared chicken freshly prepared pork freshly prepared trout freshly prepared beef minerals taurine zinc manganese iodine salmon oil

 

Nature's Variety Instinct Original Grain-Free Duck

Kibble

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Lily's Kitchen Smooth Paté for Kittens Chicken

Canned

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Score
F
Score
A
Food Type Kibble Canned
Meat % Unknown 65%
Protein % 40% 10%
Fat % 23% 6%
Fiber % 3% 0.2%
Protein to Fat Ratio 1.74 to 1 1.67 to 1
Total Ingredients 22 7
Meat Content 12 total
high concentration, high quality
4 total
high quality
Non-Meats 8 total
low concentration
None
Pea-free No, 9th Ingredient Yes
Sugar-free Yes Yes
Controversial ingredient-free Yes Yes
 

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