Purina Pro Plan Shredded Blend Chicken & Rice Formula vs. Burgess Excel Ferret Nuggets

Burgess has a better protein to fat ratio. Purina's ratio of 2.21 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 has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches. Burgess is 100% pea-free; Purina has peas as its 11th ingredient. Purina contains controversial ingredients.

Purina Pro Plan Shredded Blend Chicken & Rice Formula

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First 10 ingredients:

chicken corn gluten meal rice beef fat soybean meal chicken by-product meal poultry by-product meal soy protein isolate dried egg product cassava root flour

Burgess Excel Ferret Nuggets

Burgess has a better protein to fat ratio. Purina's ratio of 2.21 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 has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches.
Burgess is 100% pea-free; Purina has peas as its 11th ingredient.
Purina contains controversial ingredients.

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%