Three Foods, One Method

• 01 Portland Pet Food Company Meals & Mixers Grandma Ada’s Turkey & Yams Grain-Free Dog Food Topper Swap Remove
• 02 Darwin's Natural Pet Products Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen 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 Portland Pet Food Company Meals & Mixers Grandma Ada’s Turkey & Yams Grain-Free Dog Food Topper Swap Remove	02 Darwin's Natural Pet Products Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen 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 Meals & Mixers Grandma Ada’s Turkey & Yams Grain-Free Dog Food Topper 30.8%	02 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen 56.0% 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 Meals & Mixers Grandma Ada’s Turkey & Yams Grain-Free Dog Food Topper 25% 2.5% as fed Best in this row	02 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen 12% 0.0% as fed	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 Meals & Mixers Grandma Ada’s Turkey & Yams Grain-Free Dog Food Topper 3 of 5	02 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen 3 of 5	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 0 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Meals & Mixers Grandma Ada’s Turkey & Yams Grain-Free Dog Food Topper None	02 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen None	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based None
05 Brand Recall History Level Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Meals & Mixers Grandma Ada’s Turkey & Yams Grain-Free Dog Food Topper None	02 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen None	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 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 Meals & Mixers Grandma Ada’s Turkey & Yams Grain-Free Dog Food Topper 2.5%	02 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen 0.0%	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 4.8%
Kcal / Cup	01 Meals & Mixers Grandma Ada’s Turkey & Yams Grain-Free Dog Food Topper --	02 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen --	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based --
First Five Ingredients	01 Meals & Mixers Grandma Ada’s Turkey & Yams Grain-Free Dog Food Topper Turkey, Green Beans, Yams, Eggs, Chicken Gizzards	02 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)	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.