Three Foods, One Method

• 01 Iams Proactive Health Adult Chicken, Peas and Carrots Swap Remove
• 02 NutriSource PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free Swap Remove
• 03 Darwin's Natural Pet Products Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove

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

	01 Iams Proactive Health Adult Chicken, Peas and Carrots Swap Remove	02 NutriSource PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free Swap Remove	03 Darwin's Natural Pet Products Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove	+ Add A Food
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Proactive Health Adult Chicken, Peas and Carrots 50.0%	02 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 30.0%	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen 57.7% 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 Proactive Health Adult Chicken, Peas and Carrots 8% 0.0% as fed	02 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 40% 36.0% as fed	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen 12% 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 Proactive Health Adult Chicken, Peas and Carrots 4 of 5	02 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 2 of 5	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen 5 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Proactive Health Adult Chicken, Peas and Carrots None	02 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free None	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen None
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Proactive Health Adult Chicken, Peas and Carrots 1 None in the last 3 years	02 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 1 None in the last 3 years	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen 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 Proactive Health Adult Chicken, Peas and Carrots 0.0%	02 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 36.0%	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen 0.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 Proactive Health Adult Chicken, Peas and Carrots --	02 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 406	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen --
First Five Ingredients	01 Proactive Health Adult Chicken, Peas and Carrots Chicken Broth, Chicken, Chicken Liver, Chicken Heart, Wheat Gluten	02 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free lamb, lamb meal, garbanzo beans, chickpea flour, dried plain beet pulp	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen Chicken, Chicken Necks (bone in), Chicken Gizzards, Chicken Liver, Chicken Hearts

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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.