Four Foods, One Method
The same five measures, applied to each food from its own figures.
Open Your Saved Comparison- 01 Dave's Pet Food Dave’s Pet Food Restricted Diet Sodium Swap Remove
- 02 Dave's Pet Food Dave’s Pet Food 95% Premium Meats Chicken & Beef For Dogs / Grain-Free Swap Remove
- 03 NutriSource PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free Swap Remove
- 04 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Swap Remove
| 01 Dave's Pet Food Dave’s Pet Food Restricted Diet Sodium Swap Remove | 02 Dave's Pet Food Dave’s Pet Food 95% Premium Meats Chicken & Beef For Dogs / Grain-Free Swap Remove | 03 NutriSource PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free Swap Remove | 04 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Swap Remove | |
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| 01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream. | 01 Dave’s Pet Food Restricted Diet Sodium 39.1% | 02 Dave’s Pet Food 95% Premium Meats Chicken & Beef For Dogs / Grain-Free 40.9% | 03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 30.0% | 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. 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 Dave’s Pet Food Restricted Diet Sodium 13% 0.0% as fed | 02 Dave’s Pet Food 95% Premium Meats Chicken & Beef For Dogs / Grain-Free 11% 0.0% as fed | 03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 40% 36.0% 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. 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 Dave’s Pet Food Restricted Diet Sodium 1 of 5 | 02 Dave’s Pet Food 95% Premium Meats Chicken & Beef For Dogs / Grain-Free 4 of 5 | 03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 2 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 Dave’s Pet Food Restricted Diet Sodium None | 02 Dave’s Pet Food 95% Premium Meats Chicken & Beef For Dogs / Grain-Free None | 03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free None | 04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb None |
| 05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe. | 01 Dave’s Pet Food Restricted Diet Sodium None Best in this row | 02 Dave’s Pet Food 95% Premium Meats Chicken & Beef For Dogs / Grain-Free None Best in this row | 03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 1 None in the last 3 years | 04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 2 None in the last 3 years |
| 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 Dave’s Pet Food Restricted Diet Sodium 0.0% | 02 Dave’s Pet Food 95% Premium Meats Chicken & Beef For Dogs / Grain-Free 0.0% | 03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 36.0% | 04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 0.0% |
| Kcal / Cup | 01 Dave’s Pet Food Restricted Diet Sodium -- | 02 Dave’s Pet Food 95% Premium Meats Chicken & Beef For Dogs / Grain-Free -- | 03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 406 | 04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb -- |
| First Five Ingredients | 01 Dave’s Pet Food Restricted Diet Sodium Chicken, Water Sufficient For Processing, Guar Gum, Agar-Agar, Minerals (Zinc Amino Acid Chelate, Iron Amino Acid Chelate, Copper Amino Acid Chelate, Manganese Amino Acid Chelate, Sodium Selenite, Cobalt Amino Acid Chelate, Potassium Iodide) | 02 Dave’s Pet Food 95% Premium Meats Chicken & Beef For Dogs / Grain-Free Chicken, Beef, Beef Broth, Chicken Liver, Agar Agar | 03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free lamb, lamb meal, garbanzo beans, chickpea flour, dried plain beet pulp | 04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Cage-Free Chicken, Chicken Broth, Beef Broth, Pumpkin, Organic 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.
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