Land & Sea Adventures (Chicken & Ocean Fish Flavors) vs Gravy Swirlers (Chicken, Salmon & Gravy Flavors)
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 | 30% | 30% | 34.1% | 34.1% | 0 pp |
| Crude fat | 12% | 12% | 13.6% | 13.6% | 0 pp |
| Crude fiber | 3.5% | 3% | 4% | 3.4% | 0.6 pp |
| Moisture | 12% | 12% | -- | -- | 0.0 pp |
Multipliers: Land & Sea Adventures (Chicken & Ocean Fish Flavors) x1.1, Gravy Swirlers (Chicken, Salmon & Gravy Flavors) 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.
On a dry-matter basis these two land within 0 percentage points of each other on protein, which is closer than most people expect from foods at this price difference.
Ingredients
Only in Land & Sea Adventures (Chicken & Ocean Fish Flavors)
- Whole grain corn
- Beef fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols
- Liver flavor
Only in Gravy Swirlers (Chicken, Salmon & Gravy Flavors)
- Ground yellow corn
- Animal fat preserved with mixed tocopherols
- Wheat flour
- Animal liver flavor
- Salmon meal
- Artificial and natural flavors
- Dried chicken flavored gravy
Declared by both
- Corn protein meal
- Chicken by-product meal
- Soybean meal
- Meat and bone meal
- Fish meal
- Calcium carbonate
- Phosphoric acid
- Salt
- Choline chloride
- Potassium chloride
- Zinc sulfate
- Ferrous sulfate
- Manganese sulfate
- Copper sulfate
- Calcium iodate
- Sodium selenite
- DL-Methionine
- Taurine
- 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
- L-Tryptophan
- Red 40
- Yellow 5
- Blue 2