Four Foods, One Method

• 01 NutriSource PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free Swap Remove
• 02 Beneful Purina Beneful Superfood Blend Salmon Swap Remove
• 03 Darwin's Natural Pet Products Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove
• 04 TruDog Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free Swap Remove

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

	01 NutriSource PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free Swap Remove	02 Beneful Purina Beneful Superfood Blend Salmon Swap Remove	03 Darwin's Natural Pet Products Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove	04 TruDog Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free Swap Remove
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 30.0%	02 Purina Beneful Superfood Blend Salmon 27.3%	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen 56.5% Best in this row	04 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 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 40% 36.0% as fed	02 Purina Beneful Superfood Blend Salmon 44% 39.0% as fed	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen 13% 0.0% as fed	04 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 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 2 of 5	02 Purina Beneful Superfood Blend Salmon 2 of 5	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen 3 of 5	04 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 5 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free None Best in this row	02 Purina Beneful Superfood Blend Salmon 1 Menadione	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen None Best in this row	04 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free None Best in this row
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 1 None in the last 3 years	02 Purina Beneful Superfood Blend Salmon 6 None in the last 3 years	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen None Best in this row	04 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 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 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 36.0%	02 Purina Beneful Superfood Blend Salmon 39.0%	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen 0.0%	04 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 8.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 406	02 Purina Beneful Superfood Blend Salmon 366	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen --	04 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 233
First Five Ingredients	01 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free lamb, lamb meal, garbanzo beans, chickpea flour, dried plain beet pulp	02 Purina Beneful Superfood Blend Salmon Salmon, chicken meal, whole grain wheat, barley, rice	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen White fish (Pollock), Turkey neck, Turkey heart, Broccoli, Sweet potato	04 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free Beef, Beef Heart, Beef Liver, Beef Lung, Beef Kidney

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.