Fresh Ground Cow / Smooth Cow vs Fresh Smooth Bird & Fish Dish
Both are fresh foods, so their labels are already broadly comparable - differences here are about formulation, not water content. Declared moisture differs by only 3.0 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 | 16.5% | 15% | 55% | 55.6% | 0.6 pp |
| Crude fat | 8% | 9% | 26.7% | 33.3% | 6.7 pp |
| Crude fiber | 1.5% | 1.5% | 5% | 5.6% | 0.6 pp |
| Moisture | 70% | 73% | -- | -- | 3.0 pp |
Multipliers: Fresh Ground Cow / Smooth Cow x3.3, Fresh Smooth Bird & Fish Dish x3.7.
What the numbers actually show
Declared moisture is close between these two (70% against 73%), 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: Fresh Ground Cow / Smooth Cow reads 16.5% protein on the package versus Fresh Smooth Bird & Fish Dish at 15%, but once water is removed the positions reverse (55% against 55.6%).
Reading the two packages side by side without this conversion would have given the wrong answer on at least one nutrient.
Ingredients
Only in Fresh Ground Cow / Smooth Cow
- Beef
- Beef liver
- Spinach
- Dandelion greens
- Dried kelp
- Cod liver oil
Only in Fresh Smooth Bird & Fish Dish
- Chicken
- Chicken liver
- Salmon
- Potassium iodide
Declared by both
- Green beans
- Water sufficient for processing
- Dried yeast
- Tricalcium phosphate
- Sunflower oil
- Potassium chloride
- Salt
- Magnesium proteinate
- Choline chloride
- Taurine
- Zinc proteinate
- Iron proteinate
- Niacin supplement
- Vitamin E supplement
- Copper proteinate
- Vitamin A supplement
- Manganese proteinate
- Thiamine mononitrate
- D-calcium pantothenate
- Pyridoxine hydrochloride
- Vitamin D3 supplement
- Riboflavin supplement
- Vitamin B12 supplement
- Folic acid
- Sodium selenite
- Biotin