Three Foods, One Method

• 01 Rayne Nutrition Adult Health RSS Adult Health-RSS Swap Remove
• 02 Rayne Nutrition Plant Based Plant-Based Swap Remove
• 03 K9 Natural Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Swap Remove

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

	01 Rayne Nutrition Adult Health RSS Adult Health-RSS Swap Remove	02 Rayne Nutrition Plant Based Plant-Based Swap Remove	03 K9 Natural Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Swap Remove	+ Add A Food
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Adult Health RSS Adult Health-RSS 25.0%	02 Plant Based Plant-Based 25.6%	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 44.4% 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 Adult Health RSS Adult Health-RSS 50% 44.0% as fed	02 Plant Based Plant-Based 52% 46.0% as fed	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 24% 21.5% 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 Adult Health RSS Adult Health-RSS 2 of 5	02 Plant Based Plant-Based 0 of 5	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 4 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Adult Health RSS Adult Health-RSS None	02 Plant Based Plant-Based None	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish None
05 Brand Recall History Level Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Adult Health RSS Adult Health-RSS None	02 Plant Based Plant-Based None	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 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 Adult Health RSS Adult Health-RSS 44.0%	02 Plant Based Plant-Based 46.0%	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 21.5%
Kcal / Cup	01 Adult Health RSS Adult Health-RSS 397	02 Plant Based Plant-Based 306	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 423
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Adult Health RSS Adult Health-RSS -- No price on file.	02 Plant Based Plant-Based $7.73 6.6 lb bag, Rayne Nutrition	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $7.87 16 lb bag, Chewy
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 Adult Health RSS Adult Health-RSS -- No price on file.	02 Plant Based Plant-Based $5.10	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $4.43 Best in this row
First Five Ingredients	01 Adult Health RSS Adult Health-RSS Pork, brown rice, oatmeal, potato flour, pork meal	02 Plant Based Plant-Based Quinoa, fava protein, millet, fava bean, sorghum	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Salmon, Herring, Cod, Whitefish, Dehydrated Herring

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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.