Three Foods, One Method

• 01 Fromm Four-Star Pâté Seafood Medley Pâté Swap Remove
• 02 Fromm Gold Nutritionals Digestive Support Low Fat Pâté Complete Swap Remove
• 03 TruDog Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Swap Remove

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

	01 Fromm Four-Star Pâté Seafood Medley Pâté Swap Remove	02 Fromm Gold Nutritionals Digestive Support Low Fat Pâté Complete Swap Remove	03 TruDog Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Swap Remove	+ Add A Food
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Four-Star Pâté Seafood Medley Pâté 40.9% Best in this row	02 Gold Nutritionals Digestive Support Low Fat Pâté Complete 40.9% Best in this row	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 26.1%
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 Four-Star Pâté Seafood Medley Pâté 34% 3.5% as fed	02 Gold Nutritionals Digestive Support Low Fat Pâté Complete 25% 1.5% as fed Best in this row	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 40% 4.8% 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 Four-Star Pâté Seafood Medley Pâté 4 of 5	02 Gold Nutritionals Digestive Support Low Fat Pâté Complete 4 of 5	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 0 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Four-Star Pâté Seafood Medley Pâté None	02 Gold Nutritionals Digestive Support Low Fat Pâté Complete None	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based None
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Four-Star Pâté Seafood Medley Pâté 3 2 in the last 3 years	02 Gold Nutritionals Digestive Support Low Fat Pâté Complete 3 2 in the last 3 years	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 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 Four-Star Pâté Seafood Medley Pâté 3.5%	02 Gold Nutritionals Digestive Support Low Fat Pâté Complete 1.5%	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 4.8%
Kcal / Cup	01 Four-Star Pâté Seafood Medley Pâté --	02 Gold Nutritionals Digestive Support Low Fat Pâté Complete --	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based --
First Five Ingredients	01 Four-Star Pâté Seafood Medley Pâté Salmon, fish broth, whitefish, tuna, lentils	02 Gold Nutritionals Digestive Support Low Fat Pâté Complete Tuna, pumpkin, chicken broth, whitefish, chicken liver	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Vegetable broth, chickpeas, potatoes, pea protein, carrots

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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.