Pate Chicken and Liver Dinner vs Tender & Crunchy Combo (Chicken, Beef, Carrots & Green Beans Flavors)
One is a wet food and the other dry. Their labels are not directly comparable, which is the whole reason to convert them first. There is a 66.0 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 | 11% | 30% | 50% | 34.1% | 15.9 pp |
| Crude fat ranking reverses | 5% | 11% | 22.7% | 12.5% | 10.2 pp |
| Crude fiber ranking reverses | 1.5% | 3% | 6.8% | 3.4% | 3.4 pp |
| Moisture | 78% | 12% | -- | -- | 66.0 pp |
Multipliers: Pate Chicken and Liver Dinner x4.5, Tender & Crunchy Combo (Chicken, Beef, Carrots & Green Beans Flavors) x1.1.
What the numbers actually show
78% 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: Pate Chicken and Liver Dinner reads 11% protein on the package versus Tender & Crunchy Combo (Chicken, Beef, Carrots & Green Beans Flavors) at 30%, but once water is removed the positions reverse (50% against 34.1%).
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 Pate Chicken and Liver Dinner
Only in Tender & Crunchy Combo (Chicken, Beef, Carrots & Green Beans Flavors)
- Ground yellow corn
- Corn protein meal
- Chicken by-product meal
- Ground wheat
- Soybean meal
- Beef fat preserved with mixed tocopherols
- Meat and bone meal
- Glycerin
- Animal liver flavor
- Phosphoric acid
- Natural flavor
- Turkey by-product meal
- Calcium carbonate
- Salt
- Choline chloride
- Dried carrots
- Dried green beans
- Potassium chloride
- Zinc sulfate
- Ferrous sulfate
- Manganese sulfate
- Copper sulfate
- Calcium iodate
- Sodium selenite
- Vitamin E supplement
- Niacin
- Thiamine mononitrate
- Calcium pantothenate
- Riboflavin supplement
- Vitamin A supplement
- Pyridoxine hydrochloride
- Vitamin B-12 supplement
- Folic acid
- Biotin
- Vitamin D-3 supplement
- Menadione sodium bisulfite complex
- Yellow 6
- DL-Methionine
- L-Lysine monohydrochloride
- L-Tryptophan
- Red 40
- Yellow 5
- Blue 2
Declared by both
- Chicken
- Taurine