Four Foods, One Method

• 01 Now Fresh Chicken & Salmon Pâté Food for Senior Dogs Grain-Free Swap Remove
• 02 Now Fresh Good Gravy Beef Minced Grain-Free Swap Remove
• 03 TruDog Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Swap Remove
• 04 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Swap Remove

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

	01 Now Fresh Chicken & Salmon Pâté Food for Senior Dogs Grain-Free Swap Remove	02 Now Fresh Good Gravy Beef Minced Grain-Free Swap Remove	03 TruDog Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Swap Remove	04 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Swap Remove
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Chicken & Salmon Pâté Food for Senior Dogs Grain-Free 31.8%	02 Good Gravy Beef Minced Grain-Free 38.9%	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 26.1%	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 46.7% 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 Chicken & Salmon Pâté Food for Senior Dogs Grain-Free 32% 3.0% as fed Best in this row	02 Good Gravy Beef Minced Grain-Free 6% 0.0% as fed	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 40% 4.8% as fed	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 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 Chicken & Salmon Pâté Food for Senior Dogs Grain-Free 4 of 5	02 Good Gravy Beef Minced Grain-Free 2 of 5	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 0 of 5	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 3 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Chicken & Salmon Pâté Food for Senior Dogs Grain-Free None	02 Good Gravy Beef Minced Grain-Free None	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based None	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb None
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Chicken & Salmon Pâté Food for Senior Dogs Grain-Free None Best in this row	02 Good Gravy Beef Minced Grain-Free None Best in this row	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based None Best in this row	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 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 Chicken & Salmon Pâté Food for Senior Dogs Grain-Free 3.0%	02 Good Gravy Beef Minced Grain-Free 0.0%	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 4.8%	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 0.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 Chicken & Salmon Pâté Food for Senior Dogs Grain-Free --	02 Good Gravy Beef Minced Grain-Free --	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based --	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb --
First Five Ingredients	01 Chicken & Salmon Pâté Food for Senior Dogs Grain-Free de-boned chicken, chicken broth, de-boned duck, de-boned salmon, tapioca	02 Good Gravy Beef Minced Grain-Free beef bone broth gravy, de-boned beef, tapioca, pumpkin, green beans	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Vegetable broth, chickpeas, potatoes, pea protein, carrots	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Cage-Free Chicken, Chicken Broth, Beef Broth, Pumpkin, Organic Carrots

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.