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Four Foods, One Method

The same five measures, applied to each food from its own figures.

Prices are the lowest per pound we found across bag sizes, from our latest checks. Stores change prices often.

Four Foods, One Method. Each row is one measure; the best figure in a row is marked.
01 Canidae All Life Stages Chicken Meal & Rice Formula Swap Remove 02 Canidae All Life Stages Multi-Protein Formula Chicken, Turkey, Lamb, and Fish Meals Swap Remove 03 TruDog Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Swap Remove 04 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Swap Remove
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream. 01 All Life Stages Chicken Meal & Rice Formula 28.9% 02 All Life Stages Multi-Protein Formula Chicken, Turkey, Lamb, and Fish Meals 26.7% 03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 26.1% 04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 46.7% Best in this row
02 Carbohydrate Load, Dry Matter Lower Is Better Estimated, 6% ash assumed. Estimated, 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 All Life Stages Chicken Meal & Rice Formula 43% 38.5% as fed 02 All Life Stages Multi-Protein Formula Chicken, Turkey, Lamb, and Fish Meals 46% 41.5% as fed 03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 40% 4.8% as fed Best in this row 04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 13% 0.0% as fed
03 Named Proteins In The First Five Count of named animal proteins. The 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 All Life Stages Chicken Meal & Rice Formula 1 of 5 02 All Life Stages Multi-Protein Formula Chicken, Turkey, Lamb, and Fish Meals 3 of 5 03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 0 of 5 04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 3 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list. 01 All Life Stages Chicken Meal & Rice Formula None 02 All Life Stages Multi-Protein Formula Chicken, Turkey, Lamb, and Fish Meals None 03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based None 04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb None
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe. 01 All Life Stages Chicken Meal & Rice Formula 1 None in the last 3 years 02 All Life Stages Multi-Protein Formula Chicken, Turkey, Lamb, and Fish Meals 1 None in the last 3 years 03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based None Best in this row 04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 2 None in the last 3 years
Starch, As Fed Estimated, 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 All Life Stages Chicken Meal & Rice Formula 38.5% 02 All Life Stages Multi-Protein Formula Chicken, Turkey, Lamb, and Fish Meals 41.5% 03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 4.8% 04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 0.0%
Kcal / Cup 01 All Life Stages Chicken Meal & Rice Formula 449 02 All Life Stages Multi-Protein Formula Chicken, Turkey, Lamb, and Fish Meals 468 03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based -- 04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb --
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes 01 All Life Stages Chicken Meal & Rice Formula -- No price on file. 02 All Life Stages Multi-Protein Formula Chicken, Turkey, Lamb, and Fish Meals $1.40 40 lb bag, Amazon 03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based -- No price on file. 04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb -- 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 All Life Stages Chicken Meal & Rice Formula -- No price on file. 02 All Life Stages Multi-Protein Formula Chicken, Turkey, Lamb, and Fish Meals $0.86 03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based -- No price on file. 04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb -- No price on file.
First Five Ingredients 01 All Life Stages Chicken Meal & Rice Formula Chicken Meal, Brown Rice, White Rice, Rice Bran, Cracked Pearled Barley 02 All Life Stages Multi-Protein Formula Chicken, Turkey, Lamb, and Fish Meals Chicken Meal, Turkey Meal, Lamb Meal, Brown Rice, White Rice 03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Vegetable broth, chickpeas, potatoes, pea protein, carrots 04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Cage-Free Chicken, Chicken Broth, Beef Broth, Pumpkin, Organic Carrots

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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.

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