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Four Foods, One Method

The same five measures, applied to each food from its own figures.

Four Foods, One Method. Each row is one measure; the best figure in a row is marked.
01 Evanger's Evanger’s Grain Free Braised Beef Chunks with Gravy - packed by hand! Swap Remove 02 Evanger's Evanger’s Super Premium Lamb & Rice Dinner Swap Remove 03 OC Raw Dog Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove 04 Darwin's Natural Pet Products Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Comprehensive Cancer Support Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream. 01 Evanger’s Grain Free Braised Beef Chunks with Gravy - packed by hand! 44.4% 02 Evanger’s Super Premium Lamb & Rice Dinner 36.4% 03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen 56.3% Best in this row 04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Comprehensive Cancer Support Grain-Free Frozen 53.6%
02 Carbohydrate Load, Dry Matter Lower Is Better Estimated, 6% ash assumed. Estimated, 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 Evanger’s Grain Free Braised Beef Chunks with Gravy - packed by hand! 14% 0.0% as fed 02 Evanger’s Super Premium Lamb & Rice Dinner 21% 0.5% as fed 03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen 0% 0.0% as fed 04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Comprehensive Cancer Support Grain-Free Frozen 7% 0.0% as fed
03 Named Proteins In The First Five Count of named animal proteins. The 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 Evanger’s Grain Free Braised Beef Chunks with Gravy - packed by hand! 2 of 5 02 Evanger’s Super Premium Lamb & Rice Dinner 2 of 5 03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen 5 of 5 04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Comprehensive Cancer Support Grain-Free Frozen 4 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list. 01 Evanger’s Grain Free Braised Beef Chunks with Gravy - packed by hand! None 02 Evanger’s Super Premium Lamb & Rice Dinner None 03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen None 04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Comprehensive Cancer Support Grain-Free Frozen None
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe. 01 Evanger’s Grain Free Braised Beef Chunks with Gravy - packed by hand! 2 None in the last 3 years 02 Evanger’s Super Premium Lamb & Rice Dinner 2 None in the last 3 years 03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen None Best in this row 04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Comprehensive Cancer Support Grain-Free Frozen None Best in this row
Starch, As Fed Estimated, 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 Evanger’s Grain Free Braised Beef Chunks with Gravy - packed by hand! 0.0% 02 Evanger’s Super Premium Lamb & Rice Dinner 0.5% 03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen 0.0% 04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Comprehensive Cancer Support Grain-Free Frozen 0.0%
Kcal / Cup 01 Evanger’s Grain Free Braised Beef Chunks with Gravy - packed by hand! -- 02 Evanger’s Super Premium Lamb & Rice Dinner -- 03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen -- 04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Comprehensive Cancer Support Grain-Free Frozen --
First Five Ingredients 01 Evanger’s Grain Free Braised Beef Chunks with Gravy - packed by hand! Beef, Beef Broth, Carrots, Peas, Minerals (Calcium Carbonate, Zinc Sulfate, Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Proteinate, Copper Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate, Copper Proteinate, Sodium Selenite, Manganese Proteinate, Potassium Iodide) 02 Evanger’s Super Premium Lamb & Rice Dinner Lamb, Water Sufficient for Processing, Liver, Rice, Spinach 03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen Beef, Ground Beef Bone, Beef Tripe, Beef Liver, Beef Heart 04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Comprehensive Cancer Support Grain-Free Frozen White Fish (Pollock), Turkey Neck, Turkey Gizzard, Beef Liver, Broccoli

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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.

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