Three Foods, One Method

• 01 Blue Life Protection Formula Adult Dog Grain-Free Lamb Swap Remove
• 02 Blue Basics Limited Ingredient Diet Small Breed Adult Turkey and 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 Blue Life Protection Formula Adult Dog Grain-Free Lamb Swap Remove	02 Blue Basics Limited Ingredient Diet Small Breed Adult Turkey and 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 Life Protection Formula Adult Dog Grain-Free Lamb 24.4%	02 Basics Limited Ingredient Diet Small Breed Adult Turkey and Potato 24.4%	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 30.0% 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 Life Protection Formula Adult Dog Grain-Free Lamb 47% 42.0% as fed	02 Basics Limited Ingredient Diet Small Breed Adult Turkey and Potato 47% 42.0% as fed	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 40% 36.0% 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 Life Protection Formula Adult Dog Grain-Free Lamb 2 of 5	02 Basics Limited Ingredient Diet Small Breed Adult Turkey and Potato 2 of 5	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 2 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Life Protection Formula Adult Dog Grain-Free Lamb None	02 Basics Limited Ingredient Diet Small Breed Adult Turkey and Potato None	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free None
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Life Protection Formula Adult Dog Grain-Free Lamb 2 None in the last 3 years	02 Basics Limited Ingredient Diet Small Breed Adult Turkey and Potato 2 None in the last 3 years	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 1 None in the last 3 years 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 Life Protection Formula Adult Dog Grain-Free Lamb 42.0%	02 Basics Limited Ingredient Diet Small Breed Adult Turkey and Potato 42.0%	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 36.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 Life Protection Formula Adult Dog Grain-Free Lamb 378	02 Basics Limited Ingredient Diet Small Breed Adult Turkey and Potato 404	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 406
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Life Protection Formula Adult Dog Grain-Free Lamb $2.44 24 lb bag, Chewy	02 Basics Limited Ingredient Diet Small Breed Adult Turkey and Potato $4.09 11 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 Life Protection Formula Adult Dog Grain-Free Lamb $1.51 Best in this row	02 Basics Limited Ingredient Diet Small Breed Adult Turkey and Potato $2.46	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free -- No price on file.
First Five Ingredients	01 Life Protection Formula Adult Dog Grain-Free Lamb Deboned Lamb, Lamb Meal, Potatoes, Peas, Pea Starch	02 Basics Limited Ingredient Diet Small Breed Adult Turkey and Potato Deboned Turkey, Oatmeal, Turkey Meal (source of Glucosamine), Brown Rice, Peas	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.