Four Foods, One Method

• 01 Authority Healthy Weight Adult Dog Swap Remove
• 02 Authority Sensitive Stomach & Skin Large Breed Adult Dog Swap Remove
• 03 K9 Natural Lamb Feast Grain-Free Swap Remove
• 04 Darwin's Natural Pet Products Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove

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

	01 Authority Healthy Weight Adult Dog Swap Remove	02 Authority Sensitive Stomach & Skin Large Breed Adult Dog Swap Remove	03 K9 Natural Lamb Feast Grain-Free Swap Remove	04 Darwin's Natural Pet Products Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Healthy Weight Adult Dog 28.9%	02 Sensitive Stomach & Skin Large Breed Adult Dog 28.9%	03 Lamb Feast Grain-Free 44.6%	04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen 56.5% 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 Healthy Weight Adult Dog 44% 40.0% as fed	02 Sensitive Stomach & Skin Large Breed Adult Dog 43% 39.0% as fed	03 Lamb Feast Grain-Free 9% 8.5% as fed Best in this row	04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen 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 Healthy Weight Adult Dog 2 of 5	02 Sensitive Stomach & Skin Large Breed Adult Dog 2 of 5	03 Lamb Feast Grain-Free 5 of 5	04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen 3 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Healthy Weight Adult Dog None	02 Sensitive Stomach & Skin Large Breed Adult Dog None	03 Lamb Feast Grain-Free None	04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen None
05 Brand Recall History Level Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Healthy Weight Adult Dog None	02 Sensitive Stomach & Skin Large Breed Adult Dog None	03 Lamb Feast Grain-Free None	04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen 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 Healthy Weight Adult Dog 40.0%	02 Sensitive Stomach & Skin Large Breed Adult Dog 39.0%	03 Lamb Feast Grain-Free 8.5%	04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen 0.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 Healthy Weight Adult Dog 309	02 Sensitive Stomach & Skin Large Breed Adult Dog 366	03 Lamb Feast Grain-Free --	04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen --
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Healthy Weight Adult Dog $1.85 34 lb bag, PetSmart	02 Sensitive Stomach & Skin Large Breed Adult Dog $1.71 45 lb bag, PetSmart	03 Lamb Feast Grain-Free $37.50 8 lb bag, Chewy	04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen -- 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 Healthy Weight Adult Dog $1.33	02 Sensitive Stomach & Skin Large Breed Adult Dog $1.03	03 Lamb Feast Grain-Free -- No calorie figure on file.	04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen -- No price on file.
First Five Ingredients	01 Healthy Weight Adult Dog Deboned chicken, chicken meal, brown rice, pearled barley, peas	02 Sensitive Stomach & Skin Large Breed Adult Dog Salmon, fish meal (source of glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate), brown rice, wheat germ meal, corn gluten meal	03 Lamb Feast Grain-Free Lamb, Lamb Tripe, Lamb Heart, Lamb Lung, Lamb Liver	04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen White fish (Pollock), Turkey neck, Turkey heart, Broccoli, Sweet potato

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.