Four Foods, One Method

• 01 NutriSource Chicken Puppy Swap Remove
• 02 NutriSource Choice Whitefish Meal & Rice Swap Remove
• 03 K9 Natural Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Swap Remove
• 04 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Swap Remove

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

	01 NutriSource Chicken Puppy Swap Remove	02 NutriSource Choice Whitefish Meal & Rice Swap Remove	03 K9 Natural Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Swap Remove	04 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Swap Remove
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Chicken Puppy 28.9%	02 Choice Whitefish Meal & Rice 24.4%	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 44.4%	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 46.7% 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 Chicken Puppy 43% 39.0% as fed	02 Choice Whitefish Meal & Rice 49% 44.0% as fed	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 24% 21.5% as fed Best in this row	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 13% 0.0% 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 Chicken Puppy 1 of 5	02 Choice Whitefish Meal & Rice 1 of 5	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 4 of 5	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 3 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Chicken Puppy None	02 Choice Whitefish Meal & Rice None	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish None	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb None
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Chicken Puppy 1 None in the last 3 years	02 Choice Whitefish Meal & Rice 1 None in the last 3 years	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish None Best in this row	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 2 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 Chicken Puppy 39.0%	02 Choice Whitefish Meal & Rice 44.0%	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 21.5%	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 0.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 Chicken Puppy 394	02 Choice Whitefish Meal & Rice 393	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 423	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb --
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Chicken Puppy $1.65 40 lb bag, Discover NutriSource Pet Foods	02 Choice Whitefish Meal & Rice $1.75 40 lb bag, Amazon	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $7.87 16 lb bag, Chewy	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb -- 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 Chicken Puppy $0.96 Best in this row	02 Choice Whitefish Meal & Rice $1.02	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $4.43	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb -- No price on file.
First Five Ingredients	01 Chicken Puppy chicken meal, barley, peas, pea starch, dried yeast	02 Choice Whitefish Meal & Rice whitefish meal, brown rice, peas, pea starch, oatmeal	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Salmon, Herring, Cod, Whitefish, Dehydrated Herring	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Cage-Free Chicken, Chicken Broth, Beef Broth, Pumpkin, Organic Carrots

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.