Three Foods, One Method

• 01 Orijen Original Small Breed Puppy With WholePrey Nutrition Grain-Free Swap Remove
• 02 Orijen Puppy Grain-Free Swap Remove
• 03 Darwin's Natural Pet Products Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove

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

	01 Orijen Original Small Breed Puppy With WholePrey Nutrition Grain-Free Swap Remove	02 Orijen Puppy Grain-Free Swap Remove	03 Darwin's Natural Pet Products Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove	+ Add A Food
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Original Small Breed Puppy With WholePrey Nutrition Grain-Free 43.2%	02 Puppy Grain-Free 43.2%	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen 56.5% 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 Original Small Breed Puppy With WholePrey Nutrition Grain-Free 13% 11.0% as fed Best in this row	02 Puppy Grain-Free 21% 18.0% as fed	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen 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 Original Small Breed Puppy With WholePrey Nutrition Grain-Free 3 of 5	02 Puppy Grain-Free 5 of 5	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen 3 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Original Small Breed Puppy With WholePrey Nutrition Grain-Free None	02 Puppy Grain-Free None	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen None
05 Brand Recall History Level Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Original Small Breed Puppy With WholePrey Nutrition Grain-Free None	02 Puppy Grain-Free None	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen None
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 Original Small Breed Puppy With WholePrey Nutrition Grain-Free 11.0%	02 Puppy Grain-Free 18.0%	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen 0.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 Original Small Breed Puppy With WholePrey Nutrition Grain-Free 494	02 Puppy Grain-Free 475	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen --
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Original Small Breed Puppy With WholePrey Nutrition Grain-Free $7.75 4 lb bag, Pets Warehouse	02 Puppy Grain-Free $4.55 23.5 lb bag, Amazon	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen -- 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 Original Small Breed Puppy With WholePrey Nutrition Grain-Free -- No calorie figure on file.	02 Puppy Grain-Free $2.53	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen -- No price on file.
First Five Ingredients	01 Original Small Breed Puppy With WholePrey Nutrition Grain-Free Chicken, salmon, turkey, whole whiting, haddock	02 Puppy Grain-Free Chicken, turkey, chicken liver, salmon, whole herring	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen White fish (Pollock), Turkey neck, Turkey heart, Broccoli, Sweet potato

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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.