Two Foods, One Method

• 01 Science Diet Hill’s Science Diet Adult Sensitive Stomach & Skin Chicken & Barley Swap Remove
• 02 Royal Canin Small Comfort Care Swap Remove

Two Foods, One Method. Each row is one measure; the best figure in a row is marked.

	01 Science Diet Hill’s Science Diet Adult Sensitive Stomach & Skin Chicken & Barley Swap Remove	02 Royal Canin Small Comfort Care Swap Remove	+ Add A Food	+ Add A Food
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Sensitive Stomach & Skin Chicken & Barley 22.2% Best in this row	02 Small Comfort Care 21.1%
02 Carbohydrate Load, Dry Matter Lower Is Better Estimated, 6% ash assumed. iEstimated, not measured. It is what is left of the guaranteed analysis once protein, fat, fiber and moisture are taken out, with ash assumed at 6%. That leftover is mostly starch but also carries sugars and the fiber a crude-fiber test misses, so read it as a close estimate rather than an exact figure. Measured as fed, the same basis as the bag.	01 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Sensitive Stomach & Skin Chicken & Barley 52% 47.0% as fed Best in this row	02 Small Comfort Care 53% 47.4% as fed
03 Named Proteins In The First Five Count of named animal proteins. iThe count matches any named animal word in the opening five ingredients, so it also counts animal fats and flavourings as proteins. It is shown because it is one of the five measured lines, but it is too rough to call a winner on.	01 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Sensitive Stomach & Skin Chicken & Barley 2 of 5	02 Small Comfort Care 2 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Sensitive Stomach & Skin Chicken & Barley None	02 Small Comfort Care None
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Sensitive Stomach & Skin Chicken & Barley 4 None in the last 3 years	02 Small Comfort Care None Best in this row
Starch, As Fed iEstimated, not measured. It is what is left of the guaranteed analysis once protein, fat, fiber and moisture are taken out, with ash assumed at 6%. That leftover is mostly starch but also carries sugars and the fiber a crude-fiber test misses, so read it as a close estimate rather than an exact figure. Measured as fed, the same basis as the bag.	01 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Sensitive Stomach & Skin Chicken & Barley 47.0%	02 Small Comfort Care 47.4%
Kcal / Cup	01 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Sensitive Stomach & Skin Chicken & Barley 391	02 Small Comfort Care 316
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Sensitive Stomach & Skin Chicken & Barley $2.92 36 lb bag, PetSmart	02 Small Comfort Care -- No price on file.
Cost / 1,000 Kcal Lower Is Cheaper To Feed What the same amount of energy costs, so a denser food is not penalized for a higher price per pound.	01 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Sensitive Stomach & Skin Chicken & Barley $1.72	02 Small Comfort Care -- No price on file.
First Five Ingredients	01 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Sensitive Stomach & Skin Chicken & Barley Chicken, Chicken Meal, Yellow Peas, Cracked Pearled Barley, Brown Rice	02 Small Comfort Care Brewers rice, corn, chicken by-product meal, brewers rice flour, chicken fat

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Every figure here is the food's own. Protein and carbohydrate are converted to dry matter so foods of different moisture can be set beside each other; starch is estimated from the guaranteed analysis with ash assumed at 6.0%, and the recall record belongs to the manufacturer rather than to the recipe. Two rows are printed but never marked: the named-protein count, because the detection behind it is too rough to call a winner on, and calories, because neither more nor fewer is better without knowing the dog.