Purizon Chicken and Fish vs. Oxbow Essentials Ferret Food
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Oxbow has a better protein to fat ratio. However, Purizon's ratio is not bad. (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.) Oxbow has fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing. Oxbow has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches. Oxbow is 100% pea-free; Purizon has peas as its 10th ingredient.
Purizon Chicken and Fish
First 10 ingredients:
boneless chicken meat dried chicken meat potatoes chicken fat dried egg boneless herring dried herring fish oil hydrolysed animal proteins pea fibre
Oxbow Essentials Ferret Food
Oxbow has a better protein to fat ratio. However, Purizon's ratio is not bad. (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.)
Oxbow has fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing.
Oxbow has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches.
Oxbow is 100% pea-free; Purizon has peas as its 10th 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
Purizon Chicken and FishKibble |
Oxbow Essentials Ferret FoodKibble |
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Score
F |
Score
B |
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| Food Type | Kibble | Kibble |
| Meat % | 70% | Unknown |
| Protein % | 44% | 42% |
| Fat % | 20% | 20% |
| Fiber % | 1.8% | 3% |
| Protein to Fat Ratio | 2.2 to 1 | 2.1 to 1 |
| Total Ingredients | 26 | 20 |
| Meat Content |
6 total
high quality |
6 total
high concentration, high quality |
| Non-Meats |
10 total
low concentration |
4 total
low concentration |
| Pea-free | No, 10th Ingredient | Yes |
| Sugar-free | Yes | Yes |
| Controversial ingredient-free | Yes | Yes |
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