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Tender & Crunchy Combo (Chicken, Beef, Carrots & Green Beans Flavors) vs Meaty Bits With Ocean Fish in Sauce

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 67.0 percentage point gap in declared moisture between them.

Tender & Crunchy Combo (Chicken, Beef, Carrots & Green Beans Flavors)

Friskies

dryadult12% moisture

Meaty Bits With Ocean Fish in Sauce

Friskies

wetadult79% moisture

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.

NutrientA: as fedB: as fedA: dry matterB: dry matterGap
Crude protein ranking reverses30%10%34.1%47.6%13.5 pp
Crude fat11%2%12.5%9.5%3 pp
Crude fiber ranking reverses3%1%3.4%4.8%1.4 pp
Moisture12%79%----67.0 pp

Multipliers: Tender & Crunchy Combo (Chicken, Beef, Carrots & Green Beans Flavors) x1.1, Meaty Bits With Ocean Fish in Sauce x4.8.

What the numbers actually show

79% 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: Tender & Crunchy Combo (Chicken, Beef, Carrots & Green Beans Flavors) reads 30% protein on the package versus Meaty Bits With Ocean Fish in Sauce at 10%, but once water is removed the positions reverse (34.1% against 47.6%).

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 Tender & Crunchy Combo (Chicken, Beef, Carrots & Green Beans Flavors)

  1. Ground yellow corn
  2. Corn protein meal
  3. Chicken by-product meal
  4. Ground wheat
  5. Soybean meal
  6. Beef fat preserved with mixed tocopherols
  7. Meat and bone meal
  8. Glycerin
  9. Animal liver flavor
  10. Phosphoric acid
  11. Natural flavor
  12. Turkey by-product meal
  13. Calcium carbonate
  14. Dried carrots
  15. Dried green beans
  16. Calcium iodate
  17. Sodium selenite
  18. Yellow 6
  19. DL-Methionine
  20. L-Lysine monohydrochloride
  21. L-Tryptophan
  22. Red 40
  23. Yellow 5
  24. Blue 2

Only in Meaty Bits With Ocean Fish in Sauce

  1. Water
  2. Liver
  3. Wheat gluten
  4. Meat by-products
  5. Ocean fish
  6. Soy flour
  7. Corn starch-modified
  8. Artificial and natural flavors
  9. Tricalcium phosphate
  10. Magnesium proteinate
  11. Potassium iodide

Declared by both

  1. Chicken
  2. Salt
  3. Choline chloride
  4. Potassium chloride
  5. Taurine
  6. Zinc sulfate
  7. Ferrous sulfate
  8. Manganese sulfate
  9. Copper sulfate
  10. Vitamin E supplement
  11. Niacin
  12. Thiamine mononitrate
  13. Calcium pantothenate
  14. Riboflavin supplement
  15. Vitamin A supplement
  16. Pyridoxine hydrochloride
  17. Vitamin B-12 supplement
  18. Folic acid
  19. Biotin
  20. Vitamin D-3 supplement
  21. Menadione sodium bisulfite complex

Sources

ProductSourceLast checked
Tender & Crunchy Combo (Chicken, Beef, Carrots & Green Beans Flavors)https://www.purina.com/cats/shop/friskies-tender-crunchy-combo-dry-cat-food2026-11-01
Meaty Bits With Ocean Fish in Saucehttps://www.purina.com/cats/shop/friskies-meaty-bits-ocean-fish-wet-cat-food2026-11-01
This page reports and converts label data. It does not rank these foods, does not recommend which to buy, and makes no claim about either one suiting your cat. Discuss dietary choices with your veterinarian.