Adult Weight Management Chicken & Rice Formula vs Complete Essentials Salmon & Rice Entrée in Sauce
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 68.0 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% | 11% | 48.9% | 55% | 6.1 pp |
| Crude fat | 9% | 2% | 10.2% | 10% | 0.2 pp |
| Crude fiber ranking reverses | 5% | 1.5% | 5.7% | 7.5% | 1.8 pp |
| Moisture | 12% | 80% | -- | -- | 68.0 pp |
Multipliers: Adult Weight Management Chicken & Rice Formula x1.1, Complete Essentials Salmon & Rice Entrée in Sauce x5.0.
What the numbers actually show
80% 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 Complete Essentials Salmon & Rice Entrée in Sauce at 11%, but once water is removed the positions reverse (48.9% against 55%).
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
- Corn protein meal
- Poultry by-product meal
- 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
- Niacin (Vitamin B-3)
- Thiamine mononitrate (Vitamin B-1)
- Calcium pantothenate (Vitamin B-5)
- Riboflavin supplement (Vitamin B-2)
- Pyridoxine hydrochloride (Vitamin B-6)
- Folic acid (Vitamin B-9)
- Biotin (Vitamin B-7)
- Menadione sodium bisulfite complex (Vitamin K)
- Calcium iodate
- Sodium selenite
Only in Complete Essentials Salmon & Rice Entrée in Sauce
- Water
- Salmon
- Wheat gluten
- Liver
- Meat by-products
- Corn starch-modified
- Glycine
- Tricalcium phosphate
- Natural flavor
- Potassium iodide
- Thiamine mononitrate
- Niacin
- Calcium pantothenate
- Menadione sodium bisulfite complex
- Pyridoxine hydrochloride
- Riboflavin supplement
- Biotin
- Folic acid
Declared by both
- Chicken
- Rice
- Soy protein concentrate
- Salt
- Choline chloride
- Potassium chloride
- Vitamin E supplement
- Vitamin A supplement
- Vitamin B-12 supplement
- Vitamin D-3 supplement
- Zinc sulfate
- Ferrous sulfate
- Manganese sulfate
- Copper sulfate
- Taurine