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Two Foods, One Method

The same five measures, applied to each food from its own figures.

Every food here is made by Stella & Chewy's, so the recall row cannot separate them.

These foods are different formats, so cost is shown but not ranked: wet and kibble are priced on very different amounts of water.

Prices are the lowest per pound we found across bag sizes, from our latest checks. Stores change prices often.

Two Foods, One Method. Each row is one measure; the best figure in a row is marked.
01 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Purely Pork Dinner Patties Swap Remove 02 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Marie’s Magical Dinner Dust Cage-Free Chicken Swap Remove + Add A Food + Add A Food
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream. 01 Stella & Chewy’s Purely Pork Dinner Patties 42.1% 02 Stella & Chewy’s Marie’s Magical Dinner Dust Cage-Free Chicken 50.5% 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 Stella & Chewy’s Purely Pork Dinner Patties 7% 7.0% as fed Best in this row 02 Stella & Chewy’s Marie’s Magical Dinner Dust Cage-Free Chicken 8% 8.0% 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 Stella & Chewy’s Purely Pork Dinner Patties 4 of 5 02 Stella & Chewy’s Marie’s Magical Dinner Dust Cage-Free Chicken 3 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list. 01 Stella & Chewy’s Purely Pork Dinner Patties None 02 Stella & Chewy’s Marie’s Magical Dinner Dust Cage-Free Chicken None
05 Brand Recall History Level Manufacturer, not recipe. 01 Stella & Chewy’s Purely Pork Dinner Patties 2 None in the last 3 years 02 Stella & Chewy’s Marie’s Magical Dinner Dust Cage-Free Chicken 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 Stella & Chewy’s Purely Pork Dinner Patties 7.0% 02 Stella & Chewy’s Marie’s Magical Dinner Dust Cage-Free Chicken 8.0%
Kcal / Cup 01 Stella & Chewy’s Purely Pork Dinner Patties -- 02 Stella & Chewy’s Marie’s Magical Dinner Dust Cage-Free Chicken --
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes 01 Stella & Chewy’s Purely Pork Dinner Patties $44.43 14.4 oz bag, Chewy 02 Stella & Chewy’s Marie’s Magical Dinner Dust Cage-Free Chicken $29.90 1.6 oz bag, PetSmart
Cost / 1,000 Kcal What the same amount of energy costs, so a denser food is not penalized for a higher price per pound. 01 Stella & Chewy’s Purely Pork Dinner Patties $18.64 02 Stella & Chewy’s Marie’s Magical Dinner Dust Cage-Free Chicken $14.91
First Five Ingredients 01 Stella & Chewy’s Purely Pork Dinner Patties Farm-Raised Pork, Pork Liver, Pork Bone, Fenugreek Seed, Pork Kidney 02 Stella & Chewy’s Marie’s Magical Dinner Dust Cage-Free Chicken Chicken with Ground Bone, Chicken Liver, Chicken Gizzard, Pumpkin Seed, Organic Cranberries

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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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