Four Foods, One Method

• 01 Health Extension Ancestry Homeland With Lamb Meal Grain-Free Swap Remove
• 02 Health Extension Grain Free Chicken & Turkey Swap Remove
• 03 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Swap Remove
• 04 Weruva Dogs in the Kitchen Classic Dog Funky Chunky Chicken Soup with Pumpkin Grain-Free Swap Remove

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

	01 Health Extension Ancestry Homeland With Lamb Meal Grain-Free Swap Remove	02 Health Extension Grain Free Chicken & Turkey Swap Remove	03 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Swap Remove	04 Weruva Dogs in the Kitchen Classic Dog Funky Chunky Chicken Soup with Pumpkin Grain-Free Swap Remove
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Ancestry Homeland With Lamb Meal Grain-Free 34.4%	02 Grain Free Chicken & Turkey 30.0%	03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 46.7%	04 Dogs in the Kitchen Classic Dog Funky Chunky Chicken Soup with Pumpkin Grain-Free 64.0% 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 Ancestry Homeland With Lamb Meal Grain-Free 37% 33.7% as fed Best in this row	02 Grain Free Chicken & Turkey 38% 34.0% as fed	03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 13% 0.0% as fed	04 Dogs in the Kitchen Classic Dog Funky Chunky Chicken Soup with Pumpkin Grain-Free 6% 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 Ancestry Homeland With Lamb Meal Grain-Free 2 of 5	02 Grain Free Chicken & Turkey 4 of 5	03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 3 of 5	04 Dogs in the Kitchen Classic Dog Funky Chunky Chicken Soup with Pumpkin Grain-Free 2 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Ancestry Homeland With Lamb Meal Grain-Free None	02 Grain Free Chicken & Turkey None	03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb None	04 Dogs in the Kitchen Classic Dog Funky Chunky Chicken Soup with Pumpkin Grain-Free None
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Ancestry Homeland With Lamb Meal Grain-Free None Best in this row	02 Grain Free Chicken & Turkey None Best in this row	03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 2 None in the last 3 years	04 Dogs in the Kitchen Classic Dog Funky Chunky Chicken Soup with Pumpkin Grain-Free 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 Ancestry Homeland With Lamb Meal Grain-Free 33.7%	02 Grain Free Chicken & Turkey 34.0%	03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 0.0%	04 Dogs in the Kitchen Classic Dog Funky Chunky Chicken Soup with Pumpkin Grain-Free 0.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 Ancestry Homeland With Lamb Meal Grain-Free 367	02 Grain Free Chicken & Turkey 405	03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb --	04 Dogs in the Kitchen Classic Dog Funky Chunky Chicken Soup with Pumpkin Grain-Free --
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Ancestry Homeland With Lamb Meal Grain-Free $2.00 25 lb bag, My Health Extension	02 Grain Free Chicken & Turkey $3.62 23.5 lb bag, Chewy	03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb -- No price on file.	04 Dogs in the Kitchen Classic Dog Funky Chunky Chicken Soup with Pumpkin Grain-Free -- 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 Ancestry Homeland With Lamb Meal Grain-Free -- No calorie figure on file.	02 Grain Free Chicken & Turkey $2.24	03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb -- No price on file.	04 Dogs in the Kitchen Classic Dog Funky Chunky Chicken Soup with Pumpkin Grain-Free -- No price on file.
First Five Ingredients	01 Ancestry Homeland With Lamb Meal Grain-Free Lamb Meal, Sweet Potato, Peas, Duck Meal, Menhaden Oil (preserved with Natural Tocopherols)	02 Grain Free Chicken & Turkey Deboned Chicken, Chicken Meal, Deboned Turkey, Turkey Meal, Potatoes	03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Cage-Free Chicken, Chicken Broth, Beef Broth, Pumpkin, Organic Carrots	04 Dogs in the Kitchen Classic Dog Funky Chunky Chicken Soup with Pumpkin Grain-Free Chicken (Boneless, Skinless Breast), Chicken Broth, Pumpkin, Carrot, Pea

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.