Gravy Swirlers (Chicken, Salmon & Gravy Flavors) vs Pate Salmon Dinner
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 66.0 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 | 30% | 9% | 34.1% | 40.9% | 6.8 pp |
| Crude fat ranking reverses | 12% | 5% | 13.6% | 22.7% | 9.1 pp |
| Crude fiber ranking reverses | 3% | 1% | 3.4% | 4.5% | 1.1 pp |
| Moisture | 12% | 78% | -- | -- | 66.0 pp |
Multipliers: Gravy Swirlers (Chicken, Salmon & Gravy Flavors) x1.1, Pate Salmon Dinner x4.5.
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: Gravy Swirlers (Chicken, Salmon & Gravy Flavors) reads 30% protein on the package versus Pate Salmon Dinner at 9%, but once water is removed the positions reverse (34.1% 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 Gravy Swirlers (Chicken, Salmon & Gravy Flavors)
- Ground yellow corn
- Corn protein meal
- Chicken by-product meal
- Soybean meal
- Animal fat preserved with mixed tocopherols
- Wheat flour
- Meat and bone meal
- Animal liver flavor
- Fish meal
- Phosphoric acid
- Calcium carbonate
- Salmon meal
- Dried chicken flavored gravy
- Calcium iodate
- Sodium selenite
- DL-Methionine
- L-Tryptophan
- Red 40
- Yellow 5
- Blue 2
Only in Pate Salmon Dinner
- Water
- Salmon
- Poultry by-products
- Meat by-products
- Liver
- Fish
- Rice
- Tricalcium phosphate
- Guar gum
- Magnesium proteinate
- Potassium iodide
- Carrageenan
Declared by both
- Artificial and natural flavors
- Salt
- Choline chloride
- Zinc sulfate
- Ferrous sulfate
- Manganese sulfate
- Copper sulfate
- Potassium chloride
- 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