Three Foods, One Method

• 01 Diamond Premium All Life Stages Swap Remove
• 02 TruDog Raw Beef Meal Bites 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 Diamond Premium All Life Stages Swap Remove	02 TruDog Raw Beef Meal Bites 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 Premium All Life Stages 28.9%	02 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 43.5%	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 Premium All Life Stages 41% 37.0% as fed	02 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 9% 8.0% as fed Best in this row	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 24% 21.5% 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 Premium All Life Stages 2 of 5	02 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 5 of 5	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 4 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Premium All Life Stages None	02 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free None	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish None
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Premium All Life Stages 5 None in the last 3 years	02 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free None Best in this row	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 Premium All Life Stages 37.0%	02 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 8.0%	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 21.5%
Kcal / Cup	01 Premium All Life Stages 435	02 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 233	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 423
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Premium All Life Stages $1.17 40 lb bag, Chewy	02 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free -- No price on file.	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 Premium All Life Stages $0.67 Best in this row	02 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free -- No price on file.	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $4.43
First Five Ingredients	01 Premium All Life Stages Chicken by-product meal (a source of glucosamine), whole grain ground corn, wheat flour, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols), dried plain beet pulp	02 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free Beef, Beef Heart, Beef Liver, Beef Lung, Beef Kidney	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.