Nature's Variety Instinct Original Grain-Free Duck vs. Vital Essentials Duck Dinner Patties

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Nature's Variety has a better protein to fat ratio. Vital Essentials's ratio of 2.24 to 1 is too high (not fatty enough). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.) Vital Essentials has much fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing. Both foods are 100% free of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches. Vital Essentials 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. Vital Essentials's ratio of 2.24 to 1 is too high (not fatty enough). (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

Vital Essentials Duck Dinner Patties

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

First 10 ingredients:

duck duck gizzard duck heart duck liver herring oil mixed tocopherols vitamin e supplement zinc amino acid complex iron amino acid complex copper amino acid complex

 

Nature's Variety Instinct Original Grain-Free Duck

Kibble

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Vital Essentials Duck Dinner Patties

Freeze-Dried Raw

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Score
F
Score
A+
Food Type Kibble Freeze-Dried Raw
Meat % Unknown 94%
Protein % 40% 47%
Fat % 23% 21%
Fiber % 3% 5%
Protein to Fat Ratio 1.74 to 1 2.24 to 1
Total Ingredients 22 5
Meat Content 12 total
high concentration, high quality
4 total
high concentration, 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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