Three Foods, One Method

• 01 Victor Classic Professional Swap Remove
• 02 Diamond Premium All Life Stages Swap Remove
• 03 TruDog Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Swap Remove

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

	01 Victor Classic Professional Swap Remove	02 Diamond Premium All Life Stages Swap Remove	03 TruDog Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Swap Remove	+ Add A Food
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Classic Professional 28.6%	02 Premium All Life Stages 28.9% Best in this row	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 26.1%
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 Classic Professional 41% 37.2% as fed	02 Premium All Life Stages 41% 37.0% as fed	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 40% 4.8% 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 Classic Professional 2 of 5	02 Premium All Life Stages 2 of 5	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 0 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Classic Professional None	02 Premium All Life Stages None	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based None
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Classic Professional 4 3 in the last 3 years	02 Premium All Life Stages 5 None in the last 3 years	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 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 Classic Professional 37.2%	02 Premium All Life Stages 37.0%	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 4.8%
Kcal / Cup	01 Classic Professional 400	02 Premium All Life Stages 435	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based --
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Classic Professional $1.55 40 lb bag, Amazon	02 Premium All Life Stages $1.17 40 lb bag, Chewy	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based -- 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 Classic Professional $0.91	02 Premium All Life Stages $0.67 Best in this row	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based -- No price on file.
First Five Ingredients	01 Classic Professional Beef Meal, Grain Sorghum, Whole Grain Millet, Chicken Fat (preserved with mixed Tocopherols), Blood Meal Conventionally Dried	02 Premium All Life Stages Chicken by-product meal (a source of glucosamine), whole grain ground corn, wheat flour, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols), dried plain beet pulp	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Vegetable broth, chickpeas, potatoes, pea protein, carrots

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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.