Nature's Variety Instinct Raw Longevity 20% Freeze-Dried Raw Meal Blend Chicken vs. Smalls Other Bird Recipe

Nature's Variety has a better protein to fat ratio. Smalls's ratio of 2.88 to 1 is too high (not fatty enough). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.) Smalls has much fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing. Smalls has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches. Smalls is 100% pea-free; Nature's Variety has peas as its 6th ingredient.

Nature's Variety Instinct Raw Longevity 20% Freeze-Dried Raw Meal Blend Chicken

Nature's Variety has a better protein to fat ratio. Smalls's ratio of 2.88 to 1 is too high (not fatty enough). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.)

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First 10 ingredients:

chicken chicken meal turkey meal menhaden fish meal chicken fat peas freeze dried beef freeze dried beef kidney freeze dried beef spleen freeze dried beef liver

Smalls Other Bird Recipe

Smalls has much fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing.
Smalls has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches.
Smalls is 100% pea-free; Nature's Variety has peas as its 6th ingredient.

First 10 ingredients:

finely ground turkey with bone turkey heart turkey liver turkey gizzard goat's milk turkey egg water egg shell membrane herring oil mixed tocopherols