Two Foods, One Method

• 01 NutriSource Choice Large Breed Beef Swap Remove
• 02 NutriSource Element Series Outback Trails Swap Remove

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

	01 NutriSource Choice Large Breed Beef Swap Remove	02 NutriSource Element Series Outback Trails Swap Remove	+ Add A Food	+ Add A Food
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Choice Large Breed Beef 25.6%	02 Element Series Outback Trails 37.8% Best in this row
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 Choice Large Breed Beef 48% 43.0% as fed	02 Element Series Outback Trails 32% 29.0% as fed Best in this row
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 Choice Large Breed Beef 1 of 5	02 Element Series Outback Trails 4 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Choice Large Breed Beef None	02 Element Series Outback Trails None
05 Brand Recall History Level Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Choice Large Breed Beef 1 None in the last 3 years	02 Element Series Outback Trails 1 None in the last 3 years
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 Choice Large Breed Beef 43.0%	02 Element Series Outback Trails 29.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 Choice Large Breed Beef 389	02 Element Series Outback Trails 494
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Choice Large Breed Beef $1.65 40 lb bag, Amazon	02 Element Series Outback Trails $4.41 24 lb bag, Petflow
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 Choice Large Breed Beef $0.97 Best in this row	02 Element Series Outback Trails $2.46
First Five Ingredients	01 Choice Large Breed Beef beef meal, barley, peas, whole grain sorghum, pea starch	02 Element Series Outback Trails Deboned Lamb, Kangaroo, Deboned Wild Boar, Lamb Meal, Turkey Meal

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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.