Classic Pate Chicken Feast vs Complete Essentials Chicken and Rice Formula
Supermarket pate against a mid-tier kibble from the same manufacturer.
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% | 36% | 50% | 40.9% | 9.1 pp |
| Crude fat ranking reverses | 5% | 16% | 22.7% | 18.2% | 4.5 pp |
| Crude fiber ranking reverses | 1.5% | 3% | 6.8% | 3.4% | 3.4 pp |
| Moisture | 78% | 12% | -- | -- | 66.0 pp |
Multipliers: Classic Pate Chicken Feast x4.5, Complete Essentials Chicken and Rice Formula 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: Classic Pate Chicken Feast reads 11% protein on the package versus Complete Essentials Chicken and Rice Formula at 36%, but once water is removed the positions reverse (50% against 40.9%).
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 Classic Pate Chicken Feast
Only in Complete Essentials Chicken and Rice Formula
- Rice
- Poultry by-product meal
- Corn gluten meal
- Beef fat
- Soy meal
- Fish meal
Declared by both
- Chicken
- Taurine
Sources
| Product | Source | Last checked |
|---|---|---|
| Classic Pate Chicken Feast | https://www.fancyfeast.com | 2026-10-31 |
| Complete Essentials Chicken and Rice Formula | https://www.proplan.com | 2026-10-31 |