Three Foods, One Method

• 01 Nutro Puppy Tender Chicken, Sweet Potato & Pea Swap Remove
• 02 Nutro Tender Beef 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 Nutro Puppy Tender Chicken, Sweet Potato & Pea Swap Remove	02 Nutro Tender Beef 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 Puppy Tender Chicken, Sweet Potato & Pea 44.4%	02 Tender Beef 52.3% Best in this row	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 44.4%
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 Puppy Tender Chicken, Sweet Potato & Pea 17% 0.0% as fed	02 Tender Beef 7% 0.0% as fed	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 24% 21.5% 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 Puppy Tender Chicken, Sweet Potato & Pea 4 of 5	02 Tender Beef 5 of 5	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 4 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Puppy Tender Chicken, Sweet Potato & Pea None	02 Tender Beef None	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish None
05 Brand Recall History Level Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Puppy Tender Chicken, Sweet Potato & Pea None	02 Tender Beef 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 Puppy Tender Chicken, Sweet Potato & Pea 0.0%	02 Tender Beef 0.0%	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 21.5%
Kcal / Cup	01 Puppy Tender Chicken, Sweet Potato & Pea --	02 Tender Beef --	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 423
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Puppy Tender Chicken, Sweet Potato & Pea $9.00 3.5 oz bag, PetSmart	02 Tender Beef -- No price on file.	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $7.87 16 lb bag, Chewy
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 Puppy Tender Chicken, Sweet Potato & Pea $21.11	02 Tender Beef -- No price on file.	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $4.43
First Five Ingredients	01 Puppy Tender Chicken, Sweet Potato & Pea Chicken, Chicken Broth, Pork Broth, Sweet Potatoes, Chicken Liver	02 Tender Beef Beef, Chicken Broth, Chicken, Beef Liver, Dried Egg Product	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.