Adult Weight Management Chicken & Rice Formula vs All Life Stages Salmon Entrée Classic
One is a dry food and the other wet. Their labels are not directly comparable, which is the whole reason to convert them first. There is a 64.5 percentage point gap in declared moisture between them.
Nutrition, both ways
Left pair of columns is what each package prints. Right pair removes the water from both. The last column is the difference that survives the conversion.
| Nutrient | A: as fed | B: as fed | A: dry matter | B: dry matter | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crude protein ranking reverses | 43% | 12% | 48.9% | 51.1% | 2.2 pp |
| Crude fat ranking reverses | 9% | 6% | 10.2% | 25.5% | 15.3 pp |
| Crude fiber ranking reverses | 5% | 1.5% | 5.7% | 6.4% | 0.7 pp |
| Moisture | 12% | 76.5% | -- | -- | 64.5 pp |
Multipliers: Adult Weight Management Chicken & Rice Formula x1.1, All Life Stages Salmon Entrée Classic x4.3.
What the numbers actually show
76.5% moisture against 12% means the printed numbers are describing different things entirely - one includes several times more water than the other.
This is a case where the raw labels point one way and the dry-matter figures point the other: Adult Weight Management Chicken & Rice Formula reads 43% protein on the package versus All Life Stages Salmon Entrée Classic at 12%, but once water is removed the positions reverse (48.9% against 51.1%).
More than one nutrient reverses direction under conversion, which is a reliable sign that a side-by-side reading of the labels was never going to be informative.
Reading the two packages side by side without this conversion would have given the wrong answer on at least one nutrient.
Ingredients
Only in Adult Weight Management Chicken & Rice Formula
- Rice
- Corn protein meal
- Poultry by-product meal
- Soy protein concentrate
- Wheat flour
- Soy protein isolate
- Beef fat preserved with mixed tocopherols
- Fish meal
- Soybean meal
- Soybean hulls
- Liver flavor
- Dried chicory root
- Dried yeast
- Gelatin
- Phosphoric acid
- L-Lysine monohydrochloride
- Sodium bisulfate
- Calcium carbonate
- Calcium iodate
- Sodium selenite
Only in All Life Stages Salmon Entrée Classic
- Salmon
- Fish
- Liver
- Water
- Meat by-products
- Vegetable oil
- Glycine
- Magnesium proteinate
- Potassium iodide
- Guar gum
- Natural flavor
- Tricalcium phosphate
Declared by both
- Chicken
- Salt
- Choline chloride
- Potassium chloride
- Vitamin E supplement
- Niacin (Vitamin B-3)
- Thiamine mononitrate (Vitamin B-1)
- Calcium pantothenate (Vitamin B-5)
- Riboflavin supplement (Vitamin B-2)
- Vitamin A supplement
- Pyridoxine hydrochloride (Vitamin B-6)
- Vitamin B-12 supplement
- Folic acid (Vitamin B-9)
- Biotin (Vitamin B-7)
- Vitamin D-3 supplement
- Menadione sodium bisulfite complex (Vitamin K)
- Zinc sulfate
- Ferrous sulfate
- Manganese sulfate
- Copper sulfate
- Taurine