Nature's Variety Instinct Original Grain-Free Duck vs. Friskies Surfin' n Turfin' Favorites

Nature's Variety has a better protein to fat ratio. Friskies's ratio of 2.73 to 1 is too high (not fatty enough). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.) Friskies has slightly fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing. Nature's Variety has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches.

Nature's Variety Instinct Original Grain-Free Duck

Nature's Variety has a better protein to fat ratio. Friskies's ratio of 2.73 to 1 is too high (not fatty enough). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.)
Nature's Variety has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches.

Legend

First 10 ingredients:

duck turkey meal chicken meal chicken fat white fish meal pacific whiting pacific sole pacific rockfish peas tapioca

Friskies Surfin' n Turfin' Favorites

Friskies has slightly fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing.

First 10 ingredients:

ground yellow corn chicken by-product meal soybean meal corn gluten meal beef fat meat and bone meal liver flavor ocean fish meal calcium carbonate phosphoric acid