Four Foods, One Method

• 01 Bil-Jac Sensitive Solutions Swap Remove
• 02 Bil-Jac Picky No More Small Breed Swap Remove
• 03 OC Raw Dog Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove
• 04 Darwin's Natural Pet Products Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove

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

	01 Bil-Jac Sensitive Solutions Swap Remove	02 Bil-Jac Picky No More Small Breed Swap Remove	03 OC Raw Dog Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove	04 Darwin's Natural Pet Products Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Sensitive Solutions 28.9%	02 Picky No More Small Breed 28.9%	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen 56.3% Best in this row	04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen 56.0%
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 Sensitive Solutions 41% 37.0% as fed Best in this row	02 Picky No More Small Breed 43% 39.0% as fed	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen 0% 0.0% as fed	04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen 12% 0.0% 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 Sensitive Solutions 3 of 5	02 Picky No More Small Breed 3 of 5	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen 5 of 5	04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen 3 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Sensitive Solutions 1 BHA	02 Picky No More Small Breed 1 BHA	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen None Best in this row	04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen None Best in this row
05 Brand Recall History Level Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Sensitive Solutions None	02 Picky No More Small Breed None	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen None	04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen None
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 Sensitive Solutions 37.0%	02 Picky No More Small Breed 39.0%	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen 0.0%	04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen 0.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 Sensitive Solutions 403	02 Picky No More Small Breed 397	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen --	04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen --
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Sensitive Solutions $2.27 30 lb bag, PetSmart	02 Picky No More Small Breed $3.13 15 lb bag, Amazon	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen -- No price on file.	04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen -- 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 Sensitive Solutions $1.26 Best in this row	02 Picky No More Small Breed $1.76	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen -- No price on file.	04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen -- No price on file.
First Five Ingredients	01 Sensitive Solutions Chicken, Chicken By-Products (organs only, source of arginine), Corn Meal, Chicken By-Product Meal, Dried Beet Pulp	02 Picky No More Small Breed Chicken, Chicken By-Products (source of leucine and arginine), Corn Meal, Chicken By-Product Meal, Dried Beet Pulp	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen Beef, Ground Beef Bone, Beef Tripe, Beef Liver, Beef Heart	04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen Antibiotic-Free Meat (72.41%): Ground Lean Beef Meat, Beef Hearts, Beef Livers. Organic Vegetables (24.43%): Cabbage, Lettuce, Squash (seasonal)

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.