Real Meat Turkey Recipe vs. 9 Lives Daily Essentials Dry Cat Food
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Real Meat has a better protein to fat ratio. 9 Lives's ratio of 3.11 to 1 is too high (not fatty enough). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.) Real Meat has slightly fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing. Real Meat has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches. Both foods contain controversial ingredients.
Real Meat Turkey Recipe
Real Meat has a better protein to fat ratio. 9 Lives's ratio of 3.11 to 1 is too high (not fatty enough). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.)
Real Meat has slightly fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing.
Real Meat has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches.
First 10 ingredients:
turkey turkey liver turkey heart turkey gizzard turkey neck vegetable glycerin pumpkin powder parsley powder inulin ground turkey bone
9 Lives Daily Essentials Dry Cat Food
First 10 ingredients:
whole ground corn chicken by-product meal soybean meal meat and bone meal corn gluten meal beef fat whole wheat natural flavor salmon meal phosphoric acid
Real Meat Turkey RecipeAir-Dried Raw |
9 Lives Daily Essentials Dry Cat FoodKibble |
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Score
A+ |
Score
F |
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| Food Type | Air-Dried Raw | Kibble |
| Meat % | 90% | Unknown |
| Protein % | 29% | 28% |
| Fat % | 26% | 9% |
| Fiber % | 3% | 3% |
| Protein to Fat Ratio | 1.12 to 1 | 3.11 to 1 |
| Total Ingredients | 15 | 18 |
| Meat Content |
6 total
high concentration, high quality |
5 total
low concentration, low quality |
| Non-Meats |
3 total
low concentration |
4 total
low concentration |
| Sugar-free | Yes | Yes |
| Controversial ingredient-free | No | No |
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