Three Foods, One Method

• 01 Canidae All Life Stages Grain Free Real Chicken & Potato Swap Remove
• 02 Canidae Pure Grain-Free Real Salmon & Sweet Potato Swap Remove
• 03 NutriSource PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free Swap Remove

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

	01 Canidae All Life Stages Grain Free Real Chicken & Potato Swap Remove	02 Canidae Pure Grain-Free Real Salmon & Sweet Potato Swap Remove	03 NutriSource PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free Swap Remove	+ Add A Food
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 All Life Stages Grain Free Real Chicken & Potato 27.8%	02 Pure Grain-Free Real Salmon & Sweet Potato 36.7% Best in this row	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 30.0%
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 All Life Stages Grain Free Real Chicken & Potato 49% 44.0% as fed	02 Pure Grain-Free Real Salmon & Sweet Potato 36% 32.0% as fed Best in this row	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 40% 36.0% 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 All Life Stages Grain Free Real Chicken & Potato 2 of 5	02 Pure Grain-Free Real Salmon & Sweet Potato 3 of 5	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 2 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 All Life Stages Grain Free Real Chicken & Potato None Best in this row	02 Pure Grain-Free Real Salmon & Sweet Potato 1 Menadione	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free None Best in this row
05 Brand Recall History Level Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 All Life Stages Grain Free Real Chicken & Potato 1 None in the last 3 years	02 Pure Grain-Free Real Salmon & Sweet Potato 1 None in the last 3 years	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 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 All Life Stages Grain Free Real Chicken & Potato 44.0%	02 Pure Grain-Free Real Salmon & Sweet Potato 32.0%	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 36.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 All Life Stages Grain Free Real Chicken & Potato 453	02 Pure Grain-Free Real Salmon & Sweet Potato 484	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 406
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 All Life Stages Grain Free Real Chicken & Potato $1.98 48 lb bag, Chewy	02 Pure Grain-Free Real Salmon & Sweet Potato $3.23 22 lb bag, Amazon	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free -- 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 All Life Stages Grain Free Real Chicken & Potato $1.31 Best in this row	02 Pure Grain-Free Real Salmon & Sweet Potato $2.01	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free -- No price on file.
First Five Ingredients	01 All Life Stages Grain Free Real Chicken & Potato Chicken, chicken meal (source of glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate), potatoes, pea starch, garbanzo beans	02 Pure Grain-Free Real Salmon & Sweet Potato Salmon, Salmon Meal (Source of Glucosamine and Chondroitin Sulfate), Sardine Meal (Source of Glucosamine and Chondroitin Sulfate), Lentils, Sweet Potatoes	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free lamb, lamb meal, garbanzo beans, chickpea flour, dried plain beet pulp

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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.