Four Foods, One Method

• 01 Bil-Jac Sensitive Solutions Swap Remove
• 02 Bil-Jac Picky No More Small Breed Swap Remove
• 03 TruDog Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Swap Remove
• 04 NutriSource PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 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 TruDog Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Swap Remove	04 NutriSource PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 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 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 26.1%	04 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 30.0% Best in this row
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	02 Picky No More Small Breed 43% 39.0% as fed	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 40% 4.8% as fed Best in this row	04 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 40% 36.0% 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 Sensitive Solutions 3 of 5	02 Picky No More Small Breed 3 of 5	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 0 of 5	04 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 2 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 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based None Best in this row	04 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free None Best in this row
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Sensitive Solutions None Best in this row	02 Picky No More Small Breed None Best in this row	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based None Best in this row	04 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 1 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 Sensitive Solutions 37.0%	02 Picky No More Small Breed 39.0%	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 4.8%	04 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 36.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 Sensitive Solutions 403	02 Picky No More Small Breed 397	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based --	04 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 406
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 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based -- No price on file.	04 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free -- 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 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based -- No price on file.	04 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free -- 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 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Vegetable broth, chickpeas, potatoes, pea protein, carrots	04 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free lamb, lamb meal, garbanzo beans, chickpea flour, dried plain beet pulp

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.