Three Foods, One Method

• 01 Blue Wilderness Flatland Feast Adult Turkey, Quail & Duck Grain-Free Swap Remove
• 02 Blue Natural Veterinary Diet W+U Weight Management + Urinary Care Grain-Free Swap Remove
• 03 K9 Natural Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Swap Remove

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

	01 Blue Wilderness Flatland Feast Adult Turkey, Quail & Duck Grain-Free Swap Remove	02 Blue Natural Veterinary Diet W+U Weight Management + Urinary Care Grain-Free Swap Remove	03 K9 Natural Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Swap Remove	+ Add A Food
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Wilderness Flatland Feast Adult Turkey, Quail & Duck Grain-Free 33.3%	02 Natural Veterinary Diet W+U Weight Management + Urinary Care Grain-Free 33.3%	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 44.4% 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 Wilderness Flatland Feast Adult Turkey, Quail & Duck Grain-Free 36% 32.0% as fed	02 Natural Veterinary Diet W+U Weight Management + Urinary Care Grain-Free 30% 27.0% as fed	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 24% 21.5% 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 Wilderness Flatland Feast Adult Turkey, Quail & Duck Grain-Free 2 of 5	02 Natural Veterinary Diet W+U Weight Management + Urinary Care Grain-Free 2 of 5	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 4 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Wilderness Flatland Feast Adult Turkey, Quail & Duck Grain-Free None	02 Natural Veterinary Diet W+U Weight Management + Urinary Care Grain-Free None	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish None
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Wilderness Flatland Feast Adult Turkey, Quail & Duck Grain-Free 2 None in the last 3 years	02 Natural Veterinary Diet W+U Weight Management + Urinary Care Grain-Free 2 None in the last 3 years	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 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 Wilderness Flatland Feast Adult Turkey, Quail & Duck Grain-Free 32.0%	02 Natural Veterinary Diet W+U Weight Management + Urinary Care Grain-Free 27.0%	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 21.5%
Kcal / Cup	01 Wilderness Flatland Feast Adult Turkey, Quail & Duck Grain-Free 396	02 Natural Veterinary Diet W+U Weight Management + Urinary Care Grain-Free 314	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 423
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Wilderness Flatland Feast Adult Turkey, Quail & Duck Grain-Free -- No price on file.	02 Natural Veterinary Diet W+U Weight Management + Urinary Care Grain-Free $4.54 22 lb bag, Chewy	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $7.87 16 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 Wilderness Flatland Feast Adult Turkey, Quail & Duck Grain-Free -- No price on file.	02 Natural Veterinary Diet W+U Weight Management + Urinary Care Grain-Free $3.21 Best in this row	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $4.43
First Five Ingredients	01 Wilderness Flatland Feast Adult Turkey, Quail & Duck Grain-Free Deboned Turkey, Chicken Meal (source of Glucosamine), Peas, Pea Protein, Tapioca Starch	02 Natural Veterinary Diet W+U Weight Management + Urinary Care Grain-Free Deboned Chicken, Chicken Meal, Pea Starch, Peas, Pea Protein	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Salmon, Herring, Cod, Whitefish, Dehydrated Herring

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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.