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Complete Essentials Chicken and 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.

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Complete Essentials Chicken and Rice Formula

Purina Pro Plan

dryadult12% moisture

Complete Essentials Salmon & Rice Entrée in Sauce

Purina Pro Plan

wetadult80% moisture

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.

NutrientA: as fedB: as fedA: dry matterB: dry matterGap
Crude protein ranking reverses36%11%40.9%55%14.1 pp
Crude fat16%2%18.2%10%8.2 pp
Crude fiber ranking reverses3%1.5%3.4%7.5%4.1 pp
Moisture12%80%----68.0 pp

Multipliers: Complete Essentials Chicken and 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: Complete Essentials Chicken and Rice Formula reads 36% protein on the package versus Complete Essentials Salmon & Rice Entrée in Sauce at 11%, but once water is removed the positions reverse (40.9% 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 Complete Essentials Chicken and Rice Formula

  1. Poultry by-product meal
  2. Corn gluten meal
  3. Beef fat
  4. Soy meal
  5. Fish meal

Only in Complete Essentials Salmon & Rice Entrée in Sauce

  1. Water
  2. Salmon
  3. Wheat gluten
  4. Liver
  5. Meat by-products
  6. Corn starch-modified
  7. Glycine
  8. Tricalcium phosphate
  9. Salt
  10. Soy protein concentrate
  11. Natural flavor
  12. Potassium chloride
  13. Zinc sulfate
  14. Ferrous sulfate
  15. Manganese sulfate
  16. Copper sulfate
  17. Potassium iodide
  18. Choline chloride
  19. Vitamin E supplement
  20. Thiamine mononitrate
  21. Niacin
  22. Calcium pantothenate
  23. Vitamin A supplement
  24. Menadione sodium bisulfite complex
  25. Pyridoxine hydrochloride
  26. Riboflavin supplement
  27. Vitamin B-12 supplement
  28. Biotin
  29. Folic acid
  30. Vitamin D-3 supplement

Declared by both

  1. Chicken
  2. Rice
  3. Taurine

Sources

ProductSourceLast checked
Complete Essentials Chicken and Rice Formulahttps://www.proplan.com2026-10-31
Complete Essentials Salmon & Rice Entrée in Saucehttps://www.purina.com/cats/shop/pro-plan-complete-essentials-salmon-rice-entree-sauce-wet-cat-food2026-11-01
This page reports and converts label data. It does not rank these foods, does not recommend which to buy, and makes no claim about either one suiting your cat. Discuss dietary choices with your veterinarian.