Chicken Soup Classic Adult vs. Smalls Bird Recipe
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Chicken Soup 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 much fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing. Smalls has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches.
Chicken Soup Classic Adult
Chicken Soup 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 meal turkey meal brown rice peas faba beans chicken fat ground flaxseed cracked pearled barley dried egg product
Smalls Bird Recipe
Smalls has much fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing.
Smalls has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches.
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
Chicken Soup Classic AdultKibble |
Smalls Bird RecipeFreeze-Dried Raw |
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Score
C |
Score
A+ |
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| Food Type | Kibble | Freeze-Dried Raw |
| Meat % | Unknown | 98% |
| Protein % | 34% | 45% |
| Fat % | 18% | 15% |
| Fiber % | 4% | 3% |
| Protein to Fat Ratio | 1.89 to 1 | 3 to 1 |
| Total Ingredients | 33 | 9 |
| Meat Content |
9 total
high quality |
5 total
high concentration, high quality |
| Non-Meats |
14 total
low concentration |
None |
| Sugar-free | Yes | Yes |
| Controversial ingredient-free | Yes | Yes |
