Nature's Variety Instinct Original Grain-Free Duck vs. Oxbow Essentials Ferret Food

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

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First 10 ingredients:

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

Oxbow Essentials Ferret Food

Oxbow has a better protein to fat ratio. However, Nature's Variety's ratio is not bad. (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.)
Oxbow has slightly fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing.
Oxbow is 100% pea-free; Nature's Variety has peas as its 9th ingredient.

First 10 ingredients:

chicken meal chicken chicken fat egg product gelatin rice flour flaxseed meal cassava root flour dried plain beet pulp l-lysine

 

Nature's Variety Instinct Original Grain-Free Duck

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Oxbow Essentials Ferret Food

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Score
F
Score
B
Food Type Kibble Kibble
Meat % Unknown Unknown
Protein % 40% 42%
Fat % 23% 20%
Fiber % 3% 3%
Protein to Fat Ratio 1.74 to 1 2.1 to 1
Total Ingredients 22 20
Meat Content 12 total
high concentration, high quality
6 total
high concentration, high quality
Non-Meats 8 total
low concentration
4 total
low concentration
Pea-free No, 9th Ingredient Yes
Sugar-free Yes Yes
Controversial ingredient-free Yes Yes
 

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