Four Foods, One Method

• 01 Health Extension Ancestry Chicken Meal and Rice Swap Remove
• 02 Health Extension Little Bites Lite Chicken & Brown Rice Swap Remove
• 03 K9 Natural Lamb Feast Grain-Free Swap Remove
• 04 TruDog Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Swap Remove

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

	01 Health Extension Ancestry Chicken Meal and Rice Swap Remove	02 Health Extension Little Bites Lite Chicken & Brown Rice Swap Remove	03 K9 Natural Lamb Feast Grain-Free Swap Remove	04 TruDog Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Swap Remove
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Ancestry Chicken Meal and Rice 28.9%	02 Little Bites Lite Chicken & Brown Rice 26.7%	03 Lamb Feast Grain-Free 44.6% Best in this row	04 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 Ancestry Chicken Meal and Rice 43% 39.0% as fed	02 Little Bites Lite Chicken & Brown Rice 54% 48.5% as fed	03 Lamb Feast Grain-Free 9% 8.5% as fed Best in this row	04 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 40% 4.8% 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 Ancestry Chicken Meal and Rice 3 of 5	02 Little Bites Lite Chicken & Brown Rice 3 of 5	03 Lamb Feast Grain-Free 5 of 5	04 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 0 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Ancestry Chicken Meal and Rice None	02 Little Bites Lite Chicken & Brown Rice None	03 Lamb Feast Grain-Free None	04 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based None
05 Brand Recall History Level Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Ancestry Chicken Meal and Rice None	02 Little Bites Lite Chicken & Brown Rice None	03 Lamb Feast Grain-Free None	04 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 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 Ancestry Chicken Meal and Rice 39.0%	02 Little Bites Lite Chicken & Brown Rice 48.5%	03 Lamb Feast Grain-Free 8.5%	04 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 4.8%
Kcal / Cup	01 Ancestry Chicken Meal and Rice 411	02 Little Bites Lite Chicken & Brown Rice 288	03 Lamb Feast Grain-Free --	04 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based --
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Ancestry Chicken Meal and Rice $1.33 30 lb bag, My Health Extension	02 Little Bites Lite Chicken & Brown Rice $3.33 15 lb bag, Go Healthy Pet	03 Lamb Feast Grain-Free $37.50 8 lb bag, Chewy	04 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based -- No price on file.
Cost / 1,000 Kcal What the same amount of energy costs, so a denser food is not penalized for a higher price per pound.	01 Ancestry Chicken Meal and Rice $0.82	02 Little Bites Lite Chicken & Brown Rice $2.43	03 Lamb Feast Grain-Free -- No calorie figure on file.	04 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based -- No price on file.
First Five Ingredients	01 Ancestry Chicken Meal and Rice Chicken meal, whole ground brown rice, ground oats, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols and ascorbyl palmitate), menhaden fish meal	02 Little Bites Lite Chicken & Brown Rice Deboned Chicken, Chicken Meal, Brown Rice, Oatmeal, Chicken Fat (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols)	03 Lamb Feast Grain-Free Lamb, Lamb Tripe, Lamb Heart, Lamb Lung, Lamb Liver	04 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Vegetable broth, chickpeas, potatoes, pea protein, 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.