9 Lives Indoor Complete Dry Cat Food vs. IAMS Proactive Health Healthy Adult with Chicken

IAMS 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.) IAMS has slightly fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing. Both foods are mostly free of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches. 9 Lives contains controversial ingredients.

9 Lives Indoor Complete Dry Cat Food

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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

IAMS Proactive Health Healthy Adult with Chicken

IAMS 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.)
IAMS has slightly fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing.
9 Lives contains controversial ingredients.

First 10 ingredients:

chicken chicken by-product meal ground whole grain corn corn grits corn gluten meal dried plain beet pulp chicken fat natural flavor dried egg product sodium bisulfate