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

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Nature's Variety has a better protein to fat ratio. Smalls's ratio of 2.88 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. Smalls has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches.

Nature's Variety Instinct Original Grain-Free Rabbit

Nature's Variety has a better protein to fat ratio. Smalls's ratio of 2.88 to 1 is too high (not fatty enough). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.)

Legend

First 10 ingredients:

rabbit turkey meal menhaden fish meal chicken fat white fish meal peas salmon meal rabbit meal tapioca natural flavor

Smalls Other Bird Recipe

Smalls has much fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing.
Smalls has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches.

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

 

Nature's Variety Instinct Original Grain-Free Rabbit

Kibble

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Smalls Other Bird Recipe

Freeze-Dried Raw

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Score
B
Score
A+
Food Type Kibble Freeze-Dried Raw
Meat % Unknown 98%
Protein % 40.5% 49%
Fat % 22.5% 17%
Fiber % 3% 3%
Protein to Fat Ratio 1.8 to 1 2.88 to 1
Total Ingredients 22 9
Meat Content 12 total
high concentration, high quality
5 total
high concentration, high quality
Non-Meats 7 total
low concentration
None
Sugar-free Yes Yes
Controversial ingredient-free Yes Yes
 

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