Two Foods, One Method

• 01 Blue Baby BLUE Chicken & Brown Rice Large-Breed Puppy Swap Remove
• 02 Taste of the Wild Pacific Stream Puppy Swap Remove

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

	01 Blue Baby BLUE Chicken & Brown Rice Large-Breed Puppy Swap Remove	02 Taste of the Wild Pacific Stream Puppy Swap Remove	+ Add A Food	+ Add A Food
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Baby BLUE Chicken & Brown Rice Large-Breed Puppy 28.9%	02 Pacific Stream Puppy 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 Baby BLUE Chicken & Brown Rice Large-Breed Puppy 42% 38.0% as fed	02 Pacific Stream Puppy 41% 37.0% 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 Baby BLUE Chicken & Brown Rice Large-Breed Puppy 2 of 5	02 Pacific Stream Puppy 2 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Baby BLUE Chicken & Brown Rice Large-Breed Puppy None	02 Pacific Stream Puppy None
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Baby BLUE Chicken & Brown Rice Large-Breed Puppy 2 None in the last 3 years	02 Pacific Stream Puppy 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 Baby BLUE Chicken & Brown Rice Large-Breed Puppy 38.0%	02 Pacific Stream Puppy 37.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 Baby BLUE Chicken & Brown Rice Large-Breed Puppy 385	02 Pacific Stream Puppy 360
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Baby BLUE Chicken & Brown Rice Large-Breed Puppy $2.25 24 lb bag, Walmart	02 Pacific Stream Puppy $2.14 28 lb bag, Amazon
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 Baby BLUE Chicken & Brown Rice Large-Breed Puppy $1.37	02 Pacific Stream Puppy $1.31 Best in this row
First Five Ingredients	01 Baby BLUE Chicken & Brown Rice Large-Breed Puppy Deboned Chicken, Chicken Meal, Brown Rice, Oatmeal, Peas	02 Pacific Stream Puppy Salmon, ocean fish meal, sweet potatoes, peas, potatoes

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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.