Three Foods, One Method

• 01 Darwin's Natural Pet Products Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove
• 02 Science Diet Hill’s Science Diet Adult Large Breed Chicken & Brown Rice Swap Remove
• 03 K9 Natural Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Swap Remove

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

	01 Darwin's Natural Pet Products Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove	02 Science Diet Hill’s Science Diet Adult Large Breed Chicken & Brown Rice Swap Remove	03 K9 Natural Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Swap Remove	+ Add A Food
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen 56.0% Best in this row	02 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Large Breed Chicken & Brown Rice 21.4%	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 44.4%
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 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen 12% 0.0% as fed	02 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Large Breed Chicken & Brown Rice 55% 49.2% as fed	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 24% 21.5% 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 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen 3 of 5	02 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Large Breed Chicken & Brown Rice 2 of 5	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 4 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen None	02 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Large Breed Chicken & Brown Rice None	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish None
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen None Best in this row	02 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Large Breed Chicken & Brown Rice 4 None in the last 3 years	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish None Best in this row
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 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen 0.0%	02 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Large Breed Chicken & Brown Rice 49.2%	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 21.5%
Kcal / Cup	01 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen --	02 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Large Breed Chicken & Brown Rice 390	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 423
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen -- No price on file.	02 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Large Breed Chicken & Brown Rice $3.00 30 lb bag, PetSmart	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $7.87 16 lb bag, Chewy
Cost / 1,000 Kcal Lower Is Cheaper To Feed What the same amount of energy costs, so a denser food is not penalized for a higher price per pound.	01 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen -- No price on file.	02 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Large Breed Chicken & Brown Rice $1.78 Best in this row	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $4.43
First Five Ingredients	01 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)	02 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Large Breed Chicken & Brown Rice Chicken, brown rice, brewers rice, cracked pearled barley, chicken meal	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Salmon, Herring, Cod, Whitefish, Dehydrated Herring

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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.