Nature's Variety Instinct Original Grain-Free Duck vs. Real Meat Lamb Recipe

Nature's Variety has a better protein to fat ratio. Real Meat's ratio of 0.94 to 1 is too low (too fatty). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.) Real Meat has fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing. Nature's Variety has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches. Real Meat contains controversial ingredients.

Nature's Variety Instinct Original Grain-Free Duck

Nature's Variety has a better protein to fat ratio. Real Meat's ratio of 0.94 to 1 is too low (too fatty). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.)
Nature's Variety has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches.
Real Meat contains controversial ingredients.

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First 10 ingredients:

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

Real Meat Lamb Recipe

Real Meat has fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing.

First 10 ingredients:

lamb lamb lung lamb liver vegetable glycerin pumpkin powder parsley powder inulin ground lamb bone dried marine microalgae mixed tocopherols