Three Foods, One Method

• 01 Dave's Pet Food Dave’s Pet Food Carbolight Carbohydrate & Weight Management for Dogs / Swap Remove
• 02 TruDog Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Swap Remove
• 03 TruDog Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 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 Carbolight Carbohydrate & Weight Management for Dogs / Swap Remove	02 TruDog Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Swap Remove	03 TruDog Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free Swap Remove	+ Add A Food
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Dave’s Pet Food Carbolight Carbohydrate & Weight Management for Dogs / 45.5% Best in this row	02 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 26.1%	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 43.5%
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 Carbolight Carbohydrate & Weight Management for Dogs / 16% 0.0% as fed	02 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 40% 4.8% as fed	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 9% 8.0% 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 Dave’s Pet Food Carbolight Carbohydrate & Weight Management for Dogs / 3 of 5	02 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 0 of 5	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 5 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Dave’s Pet Food Carbolight Carbohydrate & Weight Management for Dogs / None	02 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based None	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free None
05 Brand Recall History Level Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Dave’s Pet Food Carbolight Carbohydrate & Weight Management for Dogs / None	02 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based None	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 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 Dave’s Pet Food Carbolight Carbohydrate & Weight Management for Dogs / 0.0%	02 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 4.8%	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 8.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 Dave’s Pet Food Carbolight Carbohydrate & Weight Management for Dogs / --	02 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based --	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 233
First Five Ingredients	01 Dave’s Pet Food Carbolight Carbohydrate & Weight Management for Dogs / Chicken Broth, Chicken, Chicken Liver, Dried Yeast, Miscanthus Grass	02 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Vegetable broth, chickpeas, potatoes, pea protein, carrots	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free Beef, Beef Heart, Beef Liver, Beef Lung, Beef Kidney

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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.