Tender Selects Blend With Real Chicken vs +Plus High Protein Ideal Weight with Chicken
Both are dry foods, so their labels are already broadly comparable - differences here are about formulation, not water content. Declared moisture differs by only 0.0 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 | 34% | 41% | 38.6% | 46.6% | 8 pp |
| Crude fat | 13% | 8.5% | 14.8% | 9.7% | 5.1 pp |
| Crude fiber | 3% | 15.5% | 3.4% | 17.6% | 14.2 pp |
| Moisture | 12% | 12% | -- | -- | 0.0 pp |
Multipliers: Tender Selects Blend With Real Chicken x1.1, +Plus High Protein Ideal Weight with Chicken x1.1.
What the numbers actually show
Declared moisture is close between these two (12% against 12%), so converting to dry matter shifts both by a similar amount.
Whichever food is ahead on the label stays ahead after conversion - +Plus High Protein Ideal Weight with Chicken carries 8 percentage points more protein on a dry-matter basis.
Ingredients
Only in Tender Selects Blend With Real Chicken
Only in +Plus High Protein Ideal Weight with Chicken
- Corn protein meal
- Soy flour
- Rice flour
- Whole grain corn
- Soy protein isolate
- Soybean hulls
- Dried yeast
- Cellulose
- Beef fat preserved with mixed tocopherols
- Natural flavor
- Phosphoric acid
- L-Lysine monohydrochloride
- Salt
- Calcium carbonate
- Choline chloride
- Glycerin
- Dried carrots
- Dried peas
- Malted barley extract
- Vitamin E supplement
- Niacin (Vitamin B-3)
- Thiamine mononitrate (Vitamin B-1)
- Calcium pantothenate (Vitamin B-5)
- Riboflavin supplement (Vitamin B-2)
- Vitamin A supplement
- Pyridoxine hydrochloride (Vitamin B-6)
- Vitamin B-12 supplement
- Folic acid (Vitamin B-9)
- Biotin (Vitamin B-7)
- Vitamin D-3 supplement
- Menadione sodium bisulfite complex (Vitamin K)
- Potassium chloride
- Zinc sulfate
- Ferrous sulfate
- Manganese sulfate
- Copper sulfate
- Calcium iodate
- Sodium selenite
- L-Carnitine