Kaytee Fortified Ferret Food with Chicken vs. Vital Essentials Duck Dinner Patties
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Kaytee has a better protein to fat ratio. Vital Essentials's ratio of 2.24 to 1 is too high (not fatty enough). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.) Vital Essentials has much fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing. Vital Essentials has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches. Vital Essentials is 100% pea-free; Kaytee has peas as its 3rd ingredient.
Kaytee Fortified Ferret Food with Chicken
Kaytee has a better protein to fat ratio. Vital Essentials's ratio of 2.24 to 1 is too high (not fatty enough). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.)
First 10 ingredients:
chicken meal poultry by-product meal pea flour poultry fat chicken ground flax seed dried plain beet pulp fish meal brewers dried yeast dried egg product
Vital Essentials Duck Dinner Patties
Vital Essentials has much fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing.
Vital Essentials has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches.
Vital Essentials is 100% pea-free; Kaytee has peas as its 3rd ingredient.
First 10 ingredients:
duck duck gizzard duck heart duck liver herring oil mixed tocopherols vitamin e supplement zinc amino acid complex iron amino acid complex copper amino acid complex
Kaytee Fortified Ferret Food with ChickenKibble |
Vital Essentials Duck Dinner PattiesFreeze-Dried Raw |
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Score
F |
Score
A+ |
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| Food Type | Kibble | Freeze-Dried Raw |
| Meat % | Unknown | 94% |
| Protein % | 42% | 47% |
| Fat % | 20% | 21% |
| Fiber % | 5% | 5% |
| Protein to Fat Ratio | 2.1 to 1 | 2.24 to 1 |
| Total Ingredients | 17 | 5 |
| Meat Content |
6 total
high quality |
4 total
high concentration, high quality |
| Non-Meats |
3 total
low concentration |
None |
| Pea-free | No, 3rd Ingredient | Yes |
| Sugar-free | Yes | Yes |
| Controversial ingredient-free | Yes | Yes |
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