Three Foods, One Method

• 01 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red Grain Free : Whole Prey Prairie Poultry Swap Remove
• 02 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Cage-Free Chicken Raw Coated Kibble Puppy Grain-Free Swap Remove
• 03 K9 Natural Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Swap Remove

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

	01 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red Grain Free : Whole Prey Prairie Poultry Swap Remove	02 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Cage-Free Chicken Raw Coated Kibble Puppy Grain-Free Swap Remove	03 K9 Natural Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Swap Remove	+ Add A Food
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red Grain Free : Whole Prey Prairie Poultry 40.9%	02 Stella & Chewy’s Cage-Free Chicken Raw Coated Kibble Puppy Grain-Free 40.9%	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 44.4% 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 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red Grain Free : Whole Prey Prairie Poultry 30% 26.0% as fed	02 Stella & Chewy’s Cage-Free Chicken Raw Coated Kibble Puppy Grain-Free 28% 25.0% as fed	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 24% 21.5% 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 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red Grain Free : Whole Prey Prairie Poultry 3 of 5	02 Stella & Chewy’s Cage-Free Chicken Raw Coated Kibble Puppy Grain-Free 3 of 5	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 4 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red Grain Free : Whole Prey Prairie Poultry None	02 Stella & Chewy’s Cage-Free Chicken Raw Coated Kibble Puppy Grain-Free None	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish None
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red Grain Free : Whole Prey Prairie Poultry 2 None in the last 3 years	02 Stella & Chewy’s Cage-Free Chicken Raw Coated Kibble Puppy Grain-Free 2 None in the last 3 years	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 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 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red Grain Free : Whole Prey Prairie Poultry 26.0%	02 Stella & Chewy’s Cage-Free Chicken Raw Coated Kibble Puppy Grain-Free 25.0%	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 21.5%
Kcal / Cup	01 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red Grain Free : Whole Prey Prairie Poultry 403	02 Stella & Chewy’s Cage-Free Chicken Raw Coated Kibble Puppy Grain-Free 438	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 423
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red Grain Free : Whole Prey Prairie Poultry $3.81 21 lb bag, Amazon	02 Stella & Chewy’s Cage-Free Chicken Raw Coated Kibble Puppy Grain-Free $4.09 22 lb bag, Only Natural Pet	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $7.87 16 lb bag, Chewy
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 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red Grain Free : Whole Prey Prairie Poultry $2.21 Best in this row	02 Stella & Chewy’s Cage-Free Chicken Raw Coated Kibble Puppy Grain-Free $2.41	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $4.43
First Five Ingredients	01 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red Grain Free : Whole Prey Prairie Poultry Cage-Free Chicken, Cage-Free Turkey, Chicken Meal, Sweet Potato, Tapioca	02 Stella & Chewy’s Cage-Free Chicken Raw Coated Kibble Puppy Grain-Free Cage-Free Chicken, Chicken Meal, Peas, Lentils, Chicken Fat (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols)	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Salmon, Herring, Cod, Whitefish, Dehydrated Herring

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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.