Smalls Bird Recipe vs. Zeal Chicken with Freeze-Dried Salmon for Cats

You can't go wrong with either of these foods. They both received top marks.

Zeal has a better protein to fat ratio. Smalls's ratio of 3 to 1 is too high (not fatty enough). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.) Smalls has fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing. Both foods are mostly free of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches. Both foods are pea-free.

Smalls Bird Recipe

Smalls has fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing.

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First 10 ingredients:

finely ground chicken with bone chicken heart chicken liver chicken gizzard chicken egg goat’s milk water eggshell membrane herring oil mixed tocopherols

Zeal Chicken with Freeze-Dried Salmon for Cats

Zeal has a better protein to fat ratio. Smalls's ratio of 3 to 1 is too high (not fatty enough). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.)

First 10 ingredients:

chicken chicken tender chicken liver salmon yeast extract dicalcium phosphate natural flavor bamboo fiber pumpkin powder parsley