Nature's Variety Instinct Original Grain-Free Duck vs. Smalls Bird Recipe

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Nature's Variety 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. Both foods are 100% free of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches.

Nature's Variety Instinct Original Grain-Free Duck

Nature's Variety 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.)

Legend

First 10 ingredients:

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

Smalls Bird Recipe

Smalls has much fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing.

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

 

Nature's Variety Instinct Original Grain-Free Duck

Kibble

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Smalls Bird Recipe

Freeze-Dried Raw

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Score
F
Score
A+
Food Type Kibble Freeze-Dried Raw
Meat % Unknown 98%
Protein % 40% 45%
Fat % 23% 15%
Fiber % 3% 3%
Protein to Fat Ratio 1.74 to 1 3 to 1
Total Ingredients 22 9
Meat Content 12 total
high concentration, high quality
5 total
high concentration, high quality
Non-Meats 8 total
low concentration
None
Sugar-free Yes Yes
Controversial ingredient-free Yes Yes
 

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