Stella & Chewy's Tummy Ticklin' Turkey vs. 9 Lives Daily Essentials Dry Cat Food

Stella & Chewy's has a better protein to fat ratio. 9 Lives's ratio of 3.11 to 1 is too high (not fatty enough). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.) Stella & Chewy's has much fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing. Stella & Chewy's has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches. Both foods are pea-free. 9 Lives contains controversial ingredients.

Stella & Chewy's Tummy Ticklin' Turkey

Stella & Chewy's has a better protein to fat ratio. 9 Lives's ratio of 3.11 to 1 is too high (not fatty enough). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.)
Stella & Chewy's has much fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing.
Stella & Chewy's has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches.
9 Lives contains controversial ingredients.

Legend

First 10 ingredients:

turkey with ground bone turkey liver turkey gizzard pumpkin seed potassium chloride sodium phosphate choline chloride dried pediococcus acidilactici fermentation product dried lactobacillus acidophilus fermentation product dried bifidobacterium longum fermentation product

9 Lives Daily Essentials Dry Cat Food

First 10 ingredients:

whole ground corn chicken by-product meal soybean meal meat and bone meal corn gluten meal beef fat whole wheat natural flavor salmon meal phosphoric acid