Real Meat Lamb Recipe vs. Burgess Excel Ferret Nuggets

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Burgess has a better protein to fat ratio. Real Meat's ratio of 0.94 to 1 is too low (too fatty). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.) Real Meat has slightly fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing. Real Meat has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches. Both foods are pea-free. Real Meat contains controversial ingredients.

Real Meat Lamb Recipe

Real Meat has slightly fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing.
Real Meat has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches.

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First 10 ingredients:

lamb lamb lung lamb liver vegetable glycerin pumpkin powder parsley powder inulin ground lamb bone dried marine microalgae mixed tocopherols

Burgess Excel Ferret Nuggets

Burgess has a better protein to fat ratio. Real Meat's ratio of 0.94 to 1 is too low (too fatty). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.)
Real Meat 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%

 

Real Meat Lamb Recipe

Air-Dried Raw

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Burgess Excel Ferret Nuggets

Kibble

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Food Type Air-Dried Raw Kibble
Meat % 90% Unknown
Protein % 30% 38%
Fat % 32% 20%
Fiber % 2% 1%
Protein to Fat Ratio 0.94 to 1 1.9 to 1
Total Ingredients 13 14
Meat Content 4 total
high concentration, high quality
4 total
low quality
Non-Meats 3 total
low concentration
2 total
low concentration
Pea-free Yes Yes
Sugar-free Yes Yes
Controversial ingredient-free No Yes
 
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