Complete Essentials Salmon & Rice Entrée in Sauce vs All Life Stages Salmon Entrée Classic
Both are wet foods, so their labels are already broadly comparable - differences here are about formulation, not water content. Declared moisture differs by only 3.5 percentage points, so the conversion changes little.
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 | 11% | 12% | 55% | 51.1% | 3.9 pp |
| Crude fat | 2% | 6% | 10% | 25.5% | 15.5 pp |
| Crude fiber | 1.5% | 1.5% | 7.5% | 6.4% | 1.1 pp |
| Moisture | 80% | 76.5% | -- | -- | 3.5 pp |
Multipliers: Complete Essentials Salmon & Rice Entrée in Sauce x5.0, All Life Stages Salmon Entrée Classic x4.3.
What the numbers actually show
Declared moisture is close between these two (80% against 76.5%), so converting to dry matter shifts both by a similar amount.
This is a case where the raw labels point one way and the dry-matter figures point the other: Complete Essentials Salmon & Rice Entrée in Sauce reads 11% protein on the package versus All Life Stages Salmon Entrée Classic at 12%, but once water is removed the positions reverse (55% against 51.1%).
Reading the two packages side by side without this conversion would have given the wrong answer on at least one nutrient.
Ingredients
Only in Complete Essentials Salmon & Rice Entrée in Sauce
- Wheat gluten
- Rice
- Corn starch-modified
- Soy protein concentrate
- Thiamine mononitrate
- Niacin
- Calcium pantothenate
- Menadione sodium bisulfite complex
- Pyridoxine hydrochloride
- Riboflavin supplement
- Biotin
- Folic acid
Only in All Life Stages Salmon Entrée Classic
- Fish
- Vegetable oil
- Magnesium proteinate
- Guar gum
- Thiamine mononitrate (Vitamin B-1)
- Niacin (Vitamin B-3)
- Calcium pantothenate (Vitamin B-5)
- Pyridoxine hydrochloride (Vitamin B-6)
- Riboflavin supplement (Vitamin B-2)
- Biotin (Vitamin B-7)
- Folic acid (Vitamin B-9)
- Menadione sodium bisulfite complex (Vitamin K)
Declared by both
- Water
- Salmon
- Liver
- Chicken
- Meat by-products
- Glycine
- Tricalcium phosphate
- Salt
- Natural flavor
- Potassium chloride
- Zinc sulfate
- Ferrous sulfate
- Manganese sulfate
- Copper sulfate
- Potassium iodide
- Taurine
- Choline chloride
- Vitamin E supplement
- Vitamin A supplement
- Vitamin B-12 supplement
- Vitamin D-3 supplement