Four Foods, One Method

• 01 Zignature Original Small Bites Zssential Formula with Probiotics Grain-Free Swap Remove
• 02 Acana Singles Limited Ingredient Diet Duck & Pear Swap Remove
• 03 OC Raw Dog Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove
• 04 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Swap Remove

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

	01 Zignature Original Small Bites Zssential Formula with Probiotics Grain-Free Swap Remove	02 Acana Singles Limited Ingredient Diet Duck & Pear Swap Remove	03 OC Raw Dog Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove	04 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Swap Remove
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Original Small Bites Zssential Formula with Probiotics Grain-Free 35.6%	02 Singles Limited Ingredient Diet Duck & Pear 35.2%	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen 56.3% Best in this row	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 46.7%
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 Bites Zssential Formula with Probiotics Grain-Free 33% 30.0% as fed	02 Singles Limited Ingredient Diet Duck & Pear 33% 29.0% as fed Best in this row	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen 0% 0.0% as fed	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 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 Bites Zssential Formula with Probiotics Grain-Free 4 of 5	02 Singles Limited Ingredient Diet Duck & Pear 3 of 5	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen 5 of 5	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 3 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Original Small Bites Zssential Formula with Probiotics Grain-Free None	02 Singles Limited Ingredient Diet Duck & Pear None	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen None	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb None
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Original Small Bites Zssential Formula with Probiotics Grain-Free None Best in this row	02 Singles Limited Ingredient Diet Duck & Pear None Best in this row	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen None Best in this row	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 2 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 Original Small Bites Zssential Formula with Probiotics Grain-Free 30.0%	02 Singles Limited Ingredient Diet Duck & Pear 29.0%	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen 0.0%	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 0.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 Original Small Bites Zssential Formula with Probiotics Grain-Free 405	02 Singles Limited Ingredient Diet Duck & Pear 388	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen --	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb --
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Original Small Bites Zssential Formula with Probiotics Grain-Free $4.25 4 lb bag, Theisen's	02 Singles Limited Ingredient Diet Duck & Pear $4.71 22.5 lb bag, Amazon	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen -- No price on file.	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb -- 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 Bites Zssential Formula with Probiotics Grain-Free $2.53 Best in this row	02 Singles Limited Ingredient Diet Duck & Pear $3.05	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen -- No price on file.	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb -- No price on file.
First Five Ingredients	01 Original Small Bites Zssential Formula with Probiotics Grain-Free Turkey, Turkey Meal, Salmon, Lamb Meal, Chickpeas	02 Singles Limited Ingredient Diet Duck & Pear Duck, duck meal, duck liver, sweet potato, whole chickpeas	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen Beef, Ground Beef Bone, Beef Tripe, Beef Liver, Beef Heart	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Cage-Free Chicken, Chicken Broth, Beef Broth, Pumpkin, Organic Carrots

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.