Four Foods, One Method

• 01 Gravy Train Chunks In Gravy With T-Bone Flavor Chunks Swap Remove
• 02 Gravy Train Chunks In Gravy With Chicken Chunks Swap Remove
• 03 Darwin's Natural Pet Products Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove
• 04 K9 Natural Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Swap Remove

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

	01 Gravy Train Chunks In Gravy With T-Bone Flavor Chunks Swap Remove	02 Gravy Train Chunks In Gravy With Chicken Chunks Swap Remove	03 Darwin's Natural Pet Products Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove	04 K9 Natural Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Swap Remove
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Chunks In Gravy With T-Bone Flavor Chunks 41.7%	02 Chunks In Gravy With Chicken Chunks 38.9%	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen 56.0% Best in this row	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 44.4%
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 Chunks In Gravy With T-Bone Flavor Chunks 25% 0.5% as fed	02 Chunks In Gravy With Chicken Chunks 28% 1.0% as fed	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen 12% 0.0% as fed	04 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 Chunks In Gravy With T-Bone Flavor Chunks 1 of 5	02 Chunks In Gravy With Chicken Chunks 1 of 5	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen 3 of 5	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 4 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Chunks In Gravy With T-Bone Flavor Chunks 2 BHA, BHT	02 Chunks In Gravy With Chicken Chunks 3 BHA, BHT, Yellow 6	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen None Best in this row	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish None Best in this row
05 Brand Recall History Level Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Chunks In Gravy With T-Bone Flavor Chunks None	02 Chunks In Gravy With Chicken Chunks None	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen None	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish None
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 Chunks In Gravy With T-Bone Flavor Chunks 0.5%	02 Chunks In Gravy With Chicken Chunks 1.0%	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen 0.0%	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 21.5%
Kcal / Cup	01 Chunks In Gravy With T-Bone Flavor Chunks --	02 Chunks In Gravy With Chicken Chunks --	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen --	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 423
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Chunks In Gravy With T-Bone Flavor Chunks -- No price on file.	02 Chunks In Gravy With Chicken Chunks -- No price on file.	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen -- No price on file.	04 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 Chunks In Gravy With T-Bone Flavor Chunks -- No price on file.	02 Chunks In Gravy With Chicken Chunks -- No price on file.	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen -- No price on file.	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $4.43
First Five Ingredients	01 Chunks In Gravy With T-Bone Flavor Chunks Water Sufficient For Processing, Soybean Meal, Chicken, Wheat Flour, Modified Food Starch	02 Chunks In Gravy With Chicken Chunks Water Sufficient For Processing, Soybean Meal, Chicken, Wheat Flour, Modified Food Starch	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen Antibiotic-Free Meat (72.41%): Ground Lean Beef Meat, Beef Hearts, Beef Livers. Organic Vegetables (24.43%): Cabbage, Lettuce, Squash (seasonal)	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Salmon, Herring, Cod, Whitefish, Dehydrated Herring

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.