Nature's Variety Instinct Raw Boost Grain-Free Salmon vs. Burgess Excel Ferret Nuggets

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Burgess has a better protein to fat ratio. Nature's Variety's ratio of 2.27 to 1 is too high (not fatty enough). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.) Burgess has much fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing. Nature's Variety has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches. Burgess is 100% pea-free; Nature's Variety has peas as its 7th ingredient.

Nature's Variety Instinct Raw Boost Grain-Free Salmon

Nature's Variety has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches.

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First 10 ingredients:

salmon menhaden fish meal white fish meal pacific whiting pacific sole pacific rockfish peas herring meal canola oil tapioca

Burgess Excel Ferret Nuggets

Burgess has a better protein to fat ratio. Nature's Variety's ratio of 2.27 to 1 is too high (not fatty enough). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.)
Burgess has much fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing.
Burgess is 100% pea-free; Nature's Variety has peas as its 7th ingredient.

First 10 ingredients:

poultry meal rice poultry fat fish meal hydrolysed poultry meal brewer’s yeast beet pulp poultry gravy salt short chain fructo-oligosaccharides 0.25%

 

Nature's Variety Instinct Raw Boost Grain-Free Salmon

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Score
F
Score
C
Food Type Kibble Kibble
Meat % Unknown Unknown
Protein % 42% 38%
Fat % 18.5% 20%
Fiber % 3.5% 1%
Protein to Fat Ratio 2.27 to 1 1.9 to 1
Total Ingredients 29 14
Meat Content 15 total
high concentration, high quality
4 total
low quality
Non-Meats 9 total
low concentration
2 total
low concentration
Pea-free No, 7th Ingredient Yes
Sugar-free Yes Yes
Controversial ingredient-free Yes Yes
 

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