Three Foods, One Method

• 01 Now Fresh Chicken & Salmon Pâté Food for Senior Dogs Grain-Free Swap Remove
• 02 NutriSource PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 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 Now Fresh Chicken & Salmon Pâté Food for Senior Dogs Grain-Free Swap Remove	02 NutriSource PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 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 Chicken & Salmon Pâté Food for Senior Dogs Grain-Free 31.8%	02 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 30.0%	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 44.4% 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	02 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 40% 36.0% as fed	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 24% 21.5% 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 Chicken & Salmon Pâté Food for Senior Dogs Grain-Free 4 of 5	02 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 2 of 5	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 4 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 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free None	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 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 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 1 None in the last 3 years	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 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 Chicken & Salmon Pâté Food for Senior Dogs Grain-Free 3.0%	02 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 36.0%	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 21.5%
Kcal / Cup	01 Chicken & Salmon Pâté Food for Senior Dogs Grain-Free --	02 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 406	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 423
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Chicken & Salmon Pâté Food for Senior Dogs Grain-Free -- No price on file.	02 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free -- No price on file.	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $7.87 16 lb 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 Chicken & Salmon Pâté Food for Senior Dogs Grain-Free -- No price on file.	02 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free -- No price on file.	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $4.43
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 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free lamb, lamb meal, garbanzo beans, chickpea flour, dried plain beet pulp	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.