Vitalin British Chicken Complete Ferret Diet vs. 9 Lives Indoor Complete Dry Cat Food

Vitalin 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.) Vitalin has slightly fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing. Vitalin has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches. Both foods are pea-free. Vitalin contains sugars, which have been linked to insulinoma. 9 Lives contains controversial ingredients.

Vitalin British Chicken Complete Ferret Diet

Vitalin 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.)
Vitalin has slightly fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing.
Vitalin has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches.
9 Lives contains controversial ingredients.

Legend

First 10 ingredients:

chicken meat meal rice chicken oil sugar beet fish meal brewer’s yeast fish oil chicken liver digest fructo-oligosaccharides mannan-oligosaccharides

9 Lives Indoor Complete Dry Cat Food

Vitalin contains sugars, which have been linked to insulinoma.

First 10 ingredients:

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