Two Foods, One Method

• 01 Beneful Purina Beneful Grain-Free Farm-Raised Chicken Swap Remove
• 02 Beneful Purina Beneful Originals Farm-Raised Beef Swap Remove

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

	01 Beneful Purina Beneful Grain-Free Farm-Raised Chicken Swap Remove	02 Beneful Purina Beneful Originals Farm-Raised Beef Swap Remove	+ Add A Food	+ Add A Food
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Purina Beneful Grain-Free Farm-Raised Chicken 27.3% Best in this row	02 Purina Beneful Originals Farm-Raised Beef 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 Purina Beneful Grain-Free Farm-Raised Chicken 46% 40.0% as fed Best in this row	02 Purina Beneful Originals Farm-Raised Beef 49% 43.0% as fed
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 Purina Beneful Grain-Free Farm-Raised Chicken 2 of 5	02 Purina Beneful Originals Farm-Raised Beef 1 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Purina Beneful Grain-Free Farm-Raised Chicken 1 Menadione	02 Purina Beneful Originals Farm-Raised Beef 1 Menadione
05 Brand Recall History Level Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Purina Beneful Grain-Free Farm-Raised Chicken 6 None in the last 3 years	02 Purina Beneful Originals Farm-Raised Beef 6 None in the last 3 years
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 Purina Beneful Grain-Free Farm-Raised Chicken 40.0%	02 Purina Beneful Originals Farm-Raised Beef 43.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 Purina Beneful Grain-Free Farm-Raised Chicken 351	02 Purina Beneful Originals Farm-Raised Beef 366
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Purina Beneful Grain-Free Farm-Raised Chicken -- No price on file.	02 Purina Beneful Originals Farm-Raised Beef $1.08 36 lb bag, PetSmart
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 Purina Beneful Grain-Free Farm-Raised Chicken -- No price on file.	02 Purina Beneful Originals Farm-Raised Beef $0.66
First Five Ingredients	01 Purina Beneful Grain-Free Farm-Raised Chicken Chicken, pea starch, cassava root flour, chicken meal, soybean germ meal	02 Purina Beneful Originals Farm-Raised Beef Beef, whole grain corn, barley, rice, whole grain wheat

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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.