Kirkland Maintenance Cat Chicken & Rice Formula vs. Vital Essentials Duck Dinner Patties

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Vital Essentials has a better protein to fat ratio. Kirkland's ratio of 1.5 to 1 is too low (too fatty). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.) Vital Essentials has fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing. Vital Essentials has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches.

Kirkland Maintenance Cat Chicken & Rice Formula

Legend

First 10 ingredients:

chicken chicken meal whole grain brown rice ground white rice chicken fat natural chicken flavor flaxseed sodium bisulfate potassium chloride choline chloride

Vital Essentials Duck Dinner Patties

Vital Essentials has a better protein to fat ratio. Kirkland's ratio of 1.5 to 1 is too low (too fatty). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.)
Vital Essentials has fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing.
Vital Essentials has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches.

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

 

Kirkland Maintenance Cat Chicken & Rice Formula

Kibble

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Vital Essentials Duck Dinner Patties

Freeze-Dried Raw

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Score
C
Score
A+
Food Type Kibble Freeze-Dried Raw
Meat % Unknown 94%
Protein % 30% 47%
Fat % 20% 21%
Fiber % 3% 5%
Protein to Fat Ratio 1.5 to 1 2.24 to 1
Total Ingredients 13 5
Meat Content 4 total
high quality
4 total
high concentration, high quality
Non-Meats 3 total
low concentration
None
Sugar-free Yes Yes
Controversial ingredient-free Yes Yes
 

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