Two Foods, One Method

• 01 Instinct Original Healthy Cravings Toppers Real Chicken Swap Remove
• 02 Instinct Raw Boost Mixers All Natural Beef Swap Remove

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

	01 Instinct Original Healthy Cravings Toppers Real Chicken Swap Remove	02 Instinct Raw Boost Mixers All Natural Beef Swap Remove	+ Add A Food	+ Add A Food
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Original Healthy Cravings Toppers Real Chicken 44.4% Best in this row	02 Raw Boost Mixers All Natural Beef 40.4%
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 Original Healthy Cravings Toppers Real Chicken 25% 0.5% as fed	02 Raw Boost Mixers All Natural Beef 5% 5.0% 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 Original Healthy Cravings Toppers Real Chicken 4 of 5	02 Raw Boost Mixers All Natural Beef 4 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Original Healthy Cravings Toppers Real Chicken None	02 Raw Boost Mixers All Natural Beef None
05 Brand Recall History Level Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Original Healthy Cravings Toppers Real Chicken 2 None in the last 3 years	02 Raw Boost Mixers All Natural Beef 2 None in the last 3 years
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 Original Healthy Cravings Toppers Real Chicken 0.5%	02 Raw Boost Mixers All Natural Beef 5.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 Original Healthy Cravings Toppers Real Chicken --	02 Raw Boost Mixers All Natural Beef 247
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Original Healthy Cravings Toppers Real Chicken $12.21 24 x 3 oz bag, Amazon	02 Raw Boost Mixers All Natural Beef $27.97 6.4 oz 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 Original Healthy Cravings Toppers Real Chicken $31.49	02 Raw Boost Mixers All Natural Beef $14.48 Best in this row
First Five Ingredients	01 Original Healthy Cravings Toppers Real Chicken Chicken Broth, Chicken, Chicken Liver, Eggs, Ground Dried Peas	02 Raw Boost Mixers All Natural Beef Beef, Beef Liver, Beef Kidney, Pumpkin Seeds, Beef Spleen

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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.