Three Foods, One Method

• 01 AvoDerm Senior Chicken Meal & Brown Rice Formula Swap Remove
• 02 AvoDerm Advanced Joint Health Grain-Free Chicken Meal Formula Swap Remove
• 03 TruDog Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Swap Remove

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

	01 AvoDerm Senior Chicken Meal & Brown Rice Formula Swap Remove	02 AvoDerm Advanced Joint Health Grain-Free Chicken Meal Formula Swap Remove	03 TruDog Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Swap Remove	+ Add A Food
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Senior Chicken Meal & Brown Rice Formula 22.2%	02 Advanced Joint Health Grain-Free Chicken Meal Formula 33.3% Best in this row	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 26.1%
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 Senior Chicken Meal & Brown Rice Formula 53% 48.0% as fed	02 Advanced Joint Health Grain-Free Chicken Meal Formula 40% 36.0% as fed Best in this row	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 40% 4.8% 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 Senior Chicken Meal & Brown Rice Formula 1 of 5	02 Advanced Joint Health Grain-Free Chicken Meal Formula 2 of 5	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 0 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Senior Chicken Meal & Brown Rice Formula None	02 Advanced Joint Health Grain-Free Chicken Meal Formula None	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based None
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Senior Chicken Meal & Brown Rice Formula 1 None in the last 3 years	02 Advanced Joint Health Grain-Free Chicken Meal Formula 1 None in the last 3 years	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 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 Senior Chicken Meal & Brown Rice Formula 48.0%	02 Advanced Joint Health Grain-Free Chicken Meal Formula 36.0%	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 4.8%
Kcal / Cup	01 Senior Chicken Meal & Brown Rice Formula 345	02 Advanced Joint Health Grain-Free Chicken Meal Formula 368	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based --
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Senior Chicken Meal & Brown Rice Formula $2.12 26 lb bag, Yow Pet Supplies	02 Advanced Joint Health Grain-Free Chicken Meal Formula $6.25 4 lb bag, Chewy	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based -- 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 Senior Chicken Meal & Brown Rice Formula $1.45 Best in this row	02 Advanced Joint Health Grain-Free Chicken Meal Formula $4.12	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based -- No price on file.
First Five Ingredients	01 Senior Chicken Meal & Brown Rice Formula Chicken Meal, Ground Brown Rice, Ground White Rice, Oatmeal, Rice Bran	02 Advanced Joint Health Grain-Free Chicken Meal Formula Chicken Meal, Peas, Chicken Cartilage (Source of Chondroitin Sulfate and Glucosamine), Pea Flour, Garbanzo Beans	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Vegetable broth, chickpeas, potatoes, pea protein, carrots

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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.