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Four Foods, One Method

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

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

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 NutriSource Choice Chicken Meal & Barley Swap Remove 03 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Swap Remove 04 TruDog Grain Free Turkey & Duck 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 Choice Chicken Meal & Barley 26.7% 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 46.7% 04 Grain Free Turkey & Duck 50.0% 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 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 40% 36.0% as fed Best in this row 02 Choice Chicken Meal & Barley 47% 42.0% as fed 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 13% 0.0% as fed 04 Grain Free Turkey & Duck 11% 0.0% 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 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 2 of 5 02 Choice Chicken Meal & Barley 1 of 5 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 3 of 5 04 Grain Free Turkey & Duck 4 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list. 01 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free None 02 Choice Chicken Meal & Barley None 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb None 04 Grain Free Turkey & Duck None
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 Choice Chicken Meal & Barley 1 None in the last 3 years 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 2 None in the last 3 years 04 Grain Free Turkey & Duck None Best in this row
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 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 36.0% 02 Choice Chicken Meal & Barley 42.0% 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 0.0% 04 Grain Free Turkey & Duck 0.0%
Kcal / Cup 01 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 406 02 Choice Chicken Meal & Barley 394 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb -- 04 Grain Free Turkey & Duck 195
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes 01 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free -- No price on file. 02 Choice Chicken Meal & Barley $1.65 40 lb bag, Feeders Pet Supply 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb -- No price on file. 04 Grain Free Turkey & Duck -- No price on file.
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 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free -- No price on file. 02 Choice Chicken Meal & Barley $0.96 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb -- No price on file. 04 Grain Free Turkey & Duck -- No price on file.
First Five Ingredients 01 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free lamb, lamb meal, garbanzo beans, chickpea flour, dried plain beet pulp 02 Choice Chicken Meal & Barley chicken meal, whole grain sorghum, barley, pea starch, dried yeast 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Cage-Free Chicken, Chicken Broth, Beef Broth, Pumpkin, Organic Carrots 04 Grain Free Turkey & Duck Turkey, turkey broth, turkey liver, ground dried peas, duck

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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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