Three Foods, One Method

• 01 TruDog Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Swap Remove
• 02 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Bountiful Bone Broth Cage-Free Chicken 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 TruDog Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Swap Remove	02 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Bountiful Bone Broth Cage-Free Chicken 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 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 26.1%	02 Stella & Chewy’s Bountiful Bone Broth Cage-Free Chicken 75.0% Best in this row	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 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 40% 4.8% as fed	02 Stella & Chewy’s Bountiful Bone Broth Cage-Free Chicken 0% 0.0% 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 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 0 of 5	02 Stella & Chewy’s Bountiful Bone Broth Cage-Free Chicken 1 of 5	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 4 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based None	02 Stella & Chewy’s Bountiful Bone Broth Cage-Free Chicken None	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish None
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based None Best in this row	02 Stella & Chewy’s Bountiful Bone Broth Cage-Free Chicken 2 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 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 4.8%	02 Stella & Chewy’s Bountiful Bone Broth Cage-Free Chicken 0.0%	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 21.5%
Kcal / Cup	01 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based --	02 Stella & Chewy’s Bountiful Bone Broth Cage-Free Chicken --	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 423
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based -- No price on file.	02 Stella & Chewy’s Bountiful Bone Broth Cage-Free Chicken $9.99 1 lb bag, Chewy	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $7.87 16 lb bag, Chewy
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 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based -- No price on file.	02 Stella & Chewy’s Bountiful Bone Broth Cage-Free Chicken $103.40	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $4.43
First Five Ingredients	01 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Vegetable broth, chickpeas, potatoes, pea protein, carrots	02 Stella & Chewy’s Bountiful Bone Broth Cage-Free Chicken Chicken Bone Broth, Organic Squash, Ground Pumpkin Seeds, Tapioca, Gelatin	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.