Three Foods, One Method

• 01 TruDog Grain Free Turkey & Duck Swap Remove
• 02 Wellness Core Digestive Health Small 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 TruDog Grain Free Turkey & Duck Swap Remove	02 Wellness Core Digestive Health Small 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 Grain Free Turkey & Duck 50.0% Best in this row	02 Core Digestive Health Small Breed Chicken & Brown Rice 36.7%	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 Grain Free Turkey & Duck 11% 0.0% as fed	02 Core Digestive Health Small Breed Chicken & Brown Rice 37% 33.0% 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 Grain Free Turkey & Duck 4 of 5	02 Core Digestive Health Small Breed Chicken & Brown Rice 3 of 5	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 4 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Grain Free Turkey & Duck None	02 Core Digestive Health Small Breed Chicken & Brown Rice None	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish None
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Grain Free Turkey & Duck None Best in this row	02 Core Digestive Health Small Breed Chicken & Brown Rice 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 Grain Free Turkey & Duck 0.0%	02 Core Digestive Health Small Breed Chicken & Brown Rice 33.0%	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 21.5%
Kcal / Cup	01 Grain Free Turkey & Duck 195	02 Core Digestive Health Small Breed Chicken & Brown Rice 424	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 423
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Grain Free Turkey & Duck -- No price on file.	02 Core Digestive Health Small Breed Chicken & Brown Rice $4.00 12 lb bag, Amazon	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 Grain Free Turkey & Duck -- No price on file.	02 Core Digestive Health Small Breed Chicken & Brown Rice $2.37 Best in this row	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $4.43
First Five Ingredients	01 Grain Free Turkey & Duck Turkey, turkey broth, turkey liver, ground dried peas, duck	02 Core Digestive Health Small Breed Chicken & Brown Rice Deboned Chicken, Chicken Meal (source of Glucosamine), Turkey Meal (source of Chondroitin Sulfate), Brown Rice, Oatmeal	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.