Three Foods, One Method

• 01 Dave's Pet Food Dave’s Pet Food Dave’s Stewlicious Shepherd’s Pie with Lamb & Beef For Dogs / 13.2 oz Swap Remove
• 02 Dave's Pet Food Dave’s Pet Food Naturally Healthy Beef & Rice Entrée For Dogs / Swap Remove
• 03 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Swap Remove

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

	01 Dave's Pet Food Dave’s Pet Food Dave’s Stewlicious Shepherd’s Pie with Lamb & Beef For Dogs / 13.2 oz Swap Remove	02 Dave's Pet Food Dave’s Pet Food Naturally Healthy Beef & Rice Entrée For Dogs / Swap Remove	03 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Swap Remove	+ Add A Food
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Dave’s Pet Food Dave’s Stewlicious Shepherd’s Pie with Lamb & Beef For Dogs / 13.2 oz 44.4%	02 Dave’s Pet Food Naturally Healthy Beef & Rice Entrée For Dogs / 40.9%	03 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. 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 Dave’s Pet Food Dave’s Stewlicious Shepherd’s Pie with Lamb & Beef For Dogs / 13.2 oz 22% 0.0% as fed	02 Dave’s Pet Food Naturally Healthy Beef & Rice Entrée For Dogs / 18% 0.0% as fed	03 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. 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 Dave’s Pet Food Dave’s Stewlicious Shepherd’s Pie with Lamb & Beef For Dogs / 13.2 oz 5 of 5	02 Dave’s Pet Food Naturally Healthy Beef & Rice Entrée For Dogs / 3 of 5	03 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 Dave’s Stewlicious Shepherd’s Pie with Lamb & Beef For Dogs / 13.2 oz None	02 Dave’s Pet Food Naturally Healthy Beef & Rice Entrée For Dogs / None	03 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 Dave’s Stewlicious Shepherd’s Pie with Lamb & Beef For Dogs / 13.2 oz None Best in this row	02 Dave’s Pet Food Naturally Healthy Beef & Rice Entrée For Dogs / None Best in this row	03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 2 None in the last 3 years
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 Dave’s Pet Food Dave’s Stewlicious Shepherd’s Pie with Lamb & Beef For Dogs / 13.2 oz 0.0%	02 Dave’s Pet Food Naturally Healthy Beef & Rice Entrée For Dogs / 0.0%	03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 0.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 Dave’s Pet Food Dave’s Stewlicious Shepherd’s Pie with Lamb & Beef For Dogs / 13.2 oz --	02 Dave’s Pet Food Naturally Healthy Beef & Rice Entrée For Dogs / --	03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb --
First Five Ingredients	01 Dave’s Pet Food Dave’s Stewlicious Shepherd’s Pie with Lamb & Beef For Dogs / 13.2 oz Lamb, lamb broth, beef broth, beef liver, beef	02 Dave’s Pet Food Naturally Healthy Beef & Rice Entrée For Dogs / Beef, Water Sufficient For Processing, Beef Liver, Chicken, Brewers Rice	03 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.