Proactive Health Adult Original With Chicken vs Perfect Portions Healthy Kitten Cuts in Gravy Chicken Recipe
One is a dry food and the other wet. Their labels are not directly comparable, which is the whole reason to convert them first. There is a 74.0 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 | 32% | 10% | 34.8% | 55.6% | 20.8 pp |
| Crude fat ranking reverses | 14% | 4% | 15.2% | 22.2% | 7 pp |
| Crude fiber ranking reverses | 3% | 1% | 3.3% | 5.6% | 2.3 pp |
| Moisture | 8% | 82% | -- | -- | 74.0 pp |
Multipliers: Proactive Health Adult Original With Chicken x1.1, Perfect Portions Healthy Kitten Cuts in Gravy Chicken Recipe x5.6.
What the numbers actually show
82% moisture against 8% 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: Proactive Health Adult Original With Chicken reads 32% protein on the package versus Perfect Portions Healthy Kitten Cuts in Gravy Chicken Recipe at 10%, but once water is removed the positions reverse (34.8% against 55.6%).
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 Proactive Health Adult Original With Chicken
Only in Perfect Portions Healthy Kitten Cuts in Gravy Chicken Recipe
- Chicken broth
- Chicken liver
- Meat by-products
- Tapioca starch
- Dried egg product
- Fish oil (preserved with mixed tocopherols)
- Glycine
- Potassium chloride
- Salt
- Sodium tripolyphosphate
- Magnesium sulfate
- Xanthan gum
- Choline chloride
- Caramel color
- DL-Methionine
- Vitamin E supplement
- Thiamine mononitrate (Vitamin B1)
- Guar gum
- Zinc sulfate
- Ferrous sulfate
- Manganese sulfate
- Copper sulfate
- Pyridoxine hydrochloride (Vitamin B6)
- Potassium iodide
- Vitamin D3 supplement
- Folic acid
- Menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K)
Declared by both
- Chicken
- Natural flavor
- Taurine