Tender & Crunchy Combo (Chicken, Beef, Carrots & Green Beans 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 | 11% | 12% | 12.5% | 13.6% | 1.1 pp |
| Crude fiber | 3% | 3% | 3.4% | 3.4% | 0 pp |
| Moisture | 12% | 12% | -- | -- | 0.0 pp |
Multipliers: Tender & Crunchy Combo (Chicken, Beef, Carrots & Green Beans 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 Tender & Crunchy Combo (Chicken, Beef, Carrots & Green Beans Flavors)
- Ground wheat
- Beef fat preserved with mixed tocopherols
- Glycerin
- Chicken
- Natural flavor
- Turkey by-product meal
- Dried carrots
- Dried green beans
- Yellow 6
- L-Lysine monohydrochloride
Only in Gravy Swirlers (Chicken, Salmon & Gravy Flavors)
- Animal fat preserved with mixed tocopherols
- Wheat flour
- Fish meal
- Salmon meal
- Artificial and natural flavors
- Dried chicken flavored gravy
Declared by both
- Ground yellow corn
- Corn protein meal
- Chicken by-product meal
- Soybean meal
- Meat and bone meal
- Animal liver flavor
- Phosphoric acid
- Calcium carbonate
- Salt
- Choline chloride
- Potassium chloride
- Taurine
- Zinc sulfate
- Ferrous sulfate
- Manganese sulfate
- Copper sulfate
- Calcium iodate
- Sodium selenite
- 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
- DL-Methionine
- L-Tryptophan
- Red 40
- Yellow 5
- Blue 2