Four Foods, One Method

• 01 Holistic Select Adult Health Lamb Meal Swap Remove
• 02 Holistic Select Adult Health Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils Swap Remove
• 03 OC Raw Dog Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove
• 04 NutriSource PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free Swap Remove

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

	01 Holistic Select Adult Health Lamb Meal Swap Remove	02 Holistic Select Adult Health Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils Swap Remove	03 OC Raw Dog Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove	04 NutriSource PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free Swap Remove
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Adult Health Lamb Meal 25.6%	02 Adult Health Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils 35.6%	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen 56.3% Best in this row	04 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 30.0%
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 Adult Health Lamb Meal 48% 43.0% as fed	02 Adult Health Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils 37% 33.5% as fed Best in this row	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen 0% 0.0% as fed	04 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 40% 36.0% 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 Adult Health Lamb Meal 2 of 5	02 Adult Health Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils 2 of 5	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen 5 of 5	04 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 2 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Adult Health Lamb Meal None	02 Adult Health Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils None	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen None	04 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free None
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Adult Health Lamb Meal None Best in this row	02 Adult Health Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils None Best in this row	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen None Best in this row	04 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 1 None in the last 3 years
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 Adult Health Lamb Meal 43.0%	02 Adult Health Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils 33.5%	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen 0.0%	04 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 36.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 Adult Health Lamb Meal 454	02 Adult Health Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils 376	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen --	04 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 406
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Adult Health Lamb Meal $2.80 30 lb bag, PetMeds	02 Adult Health Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils -- No price on file.	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen -- No price on file.	04 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free -- 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 Adult Health Lamb Meal $1.66	02 Adult Health Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils -- No price on file.	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen -- No price on file.	04 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free -- No price on file.
First Five Ingredients	01 Adult Health Lamb Meal Lamb Meal, Oatmeal, Peas, Rice, Chicken Fat (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols)	02 Adult Health Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils Deboned turkey, turkey meal (source of glucosamine), peas, lentils, chickpeas	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen Beef, Ground Beef Bone, Beef Tripe, Beef Liver, Beef Heart	04 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free lamb, lamb meal, garbanzo beans, chickpea flour, dried plain beet pulp

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.