Four Foods, One Method

• 01 Diamond Premium All Life Stages Swap Remove
• 02 K9 Natural Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Swap Remove
• 03 NutriSource PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free Swap Remove
• 04 K9 Natural Lamb Feast Grain-Free Swap Remove

Four 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 K9 Natural Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Swap Remove	03 NutriSource PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free Swap Remove	04 K9 Natural Lamb Feast Grain-Free Swap Remove
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Premium All Life Stages 28.9%	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 44.4%	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 30.0%	04 Lamb Feast Grain-Free 44.6% 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 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 24% 21.5% as fed	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 40% 36.0% as fed	04 Lamb Feast Grain-Free 9% 8.5% 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 Premium All Life Stages 2 of 5	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 4 of 5	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 2 of 5	04 Lamb Feast Grain-Free 5 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Premium All Life Stages None	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish None	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free None	04 Lamb Feast Grain-Free None
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Premium All Life Stages 5 None in the last 3 years	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish None Best in this row	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 1 None in the last 3 years	04 Lamb Feast Grain-Free 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 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 21.5%	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 36.0%	04 Lamb Feast Grain-Free 8.5%
Kcal / Cup	01 Premium All Life Stages 435	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 423	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 406	04 Lamb Feast Grain-Free --
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Premium All Life Stages $1.17 40 lb bag, Chewy	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $7.87 16 lb bag, Chewy	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free -- No price on file.	04 Lamb Feast Grain-Free $37.50 8 lb bag, Chewy
Cost / 1,000 Kcal 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	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $4.43	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free -- No price on file.	04 Lamb Feast Grain-Free -- No calorie figure on file.
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 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Salmon, Herring, Cod, Whitefish, Dehydrated Herring	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free lamb, lamb meal, garbanzo beans, chickpea flour, dried plain beet pulp	04 Lamb Feast Grain-Free Lamb, Lamb Tripe, Lamb Heart, Lamb Lung, Lamb Liver

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.