Ultra Light Thin Slices in Gravy vs Indoor Hairball and Weight Control Dry
Two weight-management formulas built on opposite assumptions about protein.
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 | 9.5% | 32% | 52.8% | 35.2% | 17.6 pp |
| Crude fat | 1.4% | 14% | 7.8% | 15.4% | 7.6 pp |
| Crude fiber ranking reverses | 1.2% | 6% | 6.7% | 6.6% | 0.1 pp |
| Moisture | 82% | 9% | -- | -- | 73.0 pp |
Multipliers: Ultra Light Thin Slices in Gravy x5.6, Indoor Hairball and Weight Control Dry x1.1.
What the numbers actually show
82% moisture against 9% 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: Ultra Light Thin Slices in Gravy reads 9.5% protein on the package versus Indoor Hairball and Weight Control Dry at 32%, but once water is removed the positions reverse (52.8% against 35.2%).
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 Ultra Light Thin Slices in Gravy
- Water sufficient for processing
- Chicken
- Chicken liver
- Pork liver
- Wheat gluten
- Corn starch
Only in Indoor Hairball and Weight Control Dry
- Deboned chicken
- Chicken meal
- Pea fiber
- Chicken fat
- Peas
- Pea protein
Declared by both
Sources
| Product | Source | Last checked |
|---|---|---|
| Ultra Light Thin Slices in Gravy | https://www.royalcanin.com | 2026-10-31 |
| Indoor Hairball and Weight Control Dry | https://bluebuffalo.com | 2026-10-31 |