Perfect Portions Healthy Adult Paté Chicken Recipe vs Perfect Portions Healthy Kitten Cuts in Gravy Chicken Recipe
Both are wet foods, so their labels are already broadly comparable - differences here are about formulation, not water content. Declared moisture differs by only 4.0 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 | 9% | 10% | 40.9% | 55.6% | 14.6 pp |
| Crude fat | 5% | 4% | 22.7% | 22.2% | 0.5 pp |
| Crude fiber | 1% | 1% | 4.5% | 5.6% | 1 pp |
| Moisture | 78% | 82% | -- | -- | 4.0 pp |
Multipliers: Perfect Portions Healthy Adult Paté Chicken Recipe x4.5, Perfect Portions Healthy Kitten Cuts in Gravy Chicken Recipe x5.6.
What the numbers actually show
Declared moisture is close between these two (78% against 82%), so converting to dry matter shifts both by a similar amount.
Whichever food is ahead on the label stays ahead after conversion - Perfect Portions Healthy Kitten Cuts in Gravy Chicken Recipe carries 14.6 percentage points more protein on a dry-matter basis.
Ingredients
Only in Perfect Portions Healthy Adult Paté Chicken Recipe
- Water
- Poultry liver
- Fish oil
- Calcium carbonate
- Thiamine mononitrate
- Iron oxide color
- Pyridoxine hydrochloride
- Menadione sodium bisulfite complex
Only in Perfect Portions Healthy Kitten Cuts in Gravy Chicken Recipe
- Chicken liver
- Meat by-products
- Fish oil (preserved with mixed tocopherols)
- Glycine
- Natural flavor
- Xanthan gum
- Caramel color
- Thiamine mononitrate (Vitamin B1)
- Pyridoxine hydrochloride (Vitamin B6)
- Menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K)
Declared by both
- Chicken
- Chicken broth
- Dried egg product
- Guar gum
- Potassium chloride
- Sodium tripolyphosphate
- Magnesium sulfate
- Taurine
- Tapioca starch
- DL-Methionine
- Choline chloride
- Salt
- Vitamin E supplement
- Zinc sulfate
- Ferrous sulfate
- Manganese sulfate
- Copper sulfate
- Potassium iodide
- Vitamin D3 supplement
- Folic acid