Fresh Smooth Fish vs Fresh Ground Cow / Smooth Cow
Both are fresh foods, so their labels are already broadly comparable - differences here are about formulation, not water content. There is a 6.0 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 | 15% | 16.5% | 62.5% | 55% | 7.5 pp |
| Crude fat | 5% | 8% | 20.8% | 26.7% | 5.8 pp |
| Crude fiber | 1.5% | 1.5% | 6.3% | 5% | 1.3 pp |
| Moisture | 76% | 70% | -- | -- | 6.0 pp |
Multipliers: Fresh Smooth Fish x4.2, Fresh Ground Cow / Smooth Cow x3.3.
What the numbers actually show
76% moisture against 70% 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: Fresh Smooth Fish reads 15% protein on the package versus Fresh Ground Cow / Smooth Cow at 16.5%, but once water is removed the positions reverse (62.5% against 55%).
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 Smooth Fish
- Salmon
- Cod
- Pumpkin
- Dried parsley
- Calcium carbonate
Only in Fresh Ground Cow / Smooth Cow
- Beef
- Beef liver
- Spinach
- Water sufficient for processing
- Dandelion greens
- Dried kelp
Declared by both
- Green beans
- Dried yeast
- Sunflower oil
- Tricalcium phosphate
- Cod liver oil
- Choline chloride
- Potassium chloride
- Salt
- Magnesium proteinate
- 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