Smalls Other Bird Recipe vs. 9 Lives Daily Essentials Dry Cat Food

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Smalls 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.) Smalls has fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing. Smalls has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches. 9 Lives contains controversial ingredients.
Smalls Other Bird Recipe
Smalls 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.)
Smalls has fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing.
Smalls has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches.
9 Lives contains controversial ingredients.
First 10 ingredients:
finely ground turkey with bone turkey heart turkey liver turkey gizzard goat's milk turkey egg water egg shell membrane herring oil mixed tocopherols
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
Smalls Other Bird RecipeFreeze-Dried Raw |
9 Lives Daily Essentials Dry Cat FoodKibble |
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Score
A+ |
Score
F |
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Food Type | Freeze-Dried Raw | Kibble |
Meat % | 98% | Unknown |
Protein % | 49% | 28% |
Fat % | 17% | 9% |
Fiber % | 3% | 3% |
Protein to Fat Ratio | 2.88 to 1 | 3.11 to 1 |
Total Ingredients | 9 | 18 |
Meat Content |
5 total
high concentration, high quality |
5 total
low concentration, low quality |
Non-Meats | None |
4 total
low concentration |
Sugar-free | Yes | Yes |
Controversial ingredient-free | Yes | No |
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