Nature's Variety Instinct Raw Boost Grain-Free Salmon vs. Smalls Water Bird Recipe

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Smalls has a better protein to fat ratio. Nature's Variety's ratio of 2.27 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. Both foods are 100% free of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches. Smalls is 100% pea-free; Nature's Variety has peas as its 7th ingredient.

Nature's Variety Instinct Raw Boost Grain-Free Salmon

Legend

First 10 ingredients:

salmon menhaden fish meal white fish meal pacific whiting pacific sole pacific rockfish peas herring meal canola oil tapioca

Smalls Water Bird Recipe

Smalls has a better protein to fat ratio. Nature's Variety's ratio of 2.27 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 is 100% pea-free; Nature's Variety has peas as its 7th ingredient.

First 10 ingredients:

finely ground duck with bone duck heart duck liver duck gizzard duck egg duck blood goat's milk water eggshell membrane herring oil

 

Nature's Variety Instinct Raw Boost Grain-Free Salmon

Kibble

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Smalls Water Bird Recipe

Freeze-Dried Raw

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Score
F
Score
A+
Food Type Kibble Freeze-Dried Raw
Meat % Unknown 98%
Protein % 42% 45%
Fat % 18.5% 20%
Fiber % 3.5% 3%
Protein to Fat Ratio 2.27 to 1 2.25 to 1
Total Ingredients 29 10
Meat Content 15 total
high concentration, high quality
6 total
high concentration, high quality
Non-Meats 9 total
low concentration
None
Pea-free No, 7th Ingredient Yes
Sugar-free Yes Yes
Controversial ingredient-free Yes Yes
 

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