Two Foods, One Method

• 01 Blue Life Protection Formula Toy Breed Adult Chicken and Brown Rice Swap Remove
• 02 Taste of the Wild Sierra Mountain Canine Swap Remove

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

	01 Blue Life Protection Formula Toy Breed Adult Chicken and Brown Rice Swap Remove	02 Taste of the Wild Sierra Mountain Canine Swap Remove	+ Add A Food	+ Add A Food
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Life Protection Formula Toy Breed Adult Chicken and Brown Rice 28.9% Best in this row	02 Sierra Mountain Canine 27.8%
02 Carbohydrate Load, Dry Matter Level 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 Life Protection Formula Toy Breed Adult Chicken and Brown Rice 43% 39.0% as fed	02 Sierra Mountain Canine 43% 39.0% 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 Life Protection Formula Toy Breed Adult Chicken and Brown Rice 2 of 5	02 Sierra Mountain Canine 3 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Life Protection Formula Toy Breed Adult Chicken and Brown Rice None	02 Sierra Mountain Canine None
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Life Protection Formula Toy Breed Adult Chicken and Brown Rice 2 None in the last 3 years	02 Sierra Mountain Canine 1 None in the last 3 years 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 Life Protection Formula Toy Breed Adult Chicken and Brown Rice 39.0%	02 Sierra Mountain Canine 39.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 Life Protection Formula Toy Breed Adult Chicken and Brown Rice 415	02 Sierra Mountain Canine 410
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Life Protection Formula Toy Breed Adult Chicken and Brown Rice $5.00 4 lb bag, Walmart	02 Sierra Mountain Canine $2.11 28 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 Life Protection Formula Toy Breed Adult Chicken and Brown Rice $3.02	02 Sierra Mountain Canine $1.29 Best in this row
First Five Ingredients	01 Life Protection Formula Toy Breed Adult Chicken and Brown Rice Deboned Chicken, Chicken Meal, Brown Rice, Oatmeal, Barley	02 Sierra Mountain Canine Lamb, lamb meal, sweet potatoes, egg product, lentils

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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.