Four Foods, One Method

• 01 Holistic Select Adult Health Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils Swap Remove
• 02 Holistic Select Adult Health Lamb Meal Swap Remove
• 03 OC Raw Dog Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove
• 04 TruDog Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Swap Remove

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

	01 Holistic Select Adult Health Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils Swap Remove	02 Holistic Select Adult Health Lamb Meal Swap Remove	03 OC Raw Dog Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove	04 TruDog Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Swap Remove
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Adult Health Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils 35.6%	02 Adult Health Lamb Meal 25.6%	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen 56.3% Best in this row	04 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 26.1%
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 Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils 37% 33.5% as fed Best in this row	02 Adult Health Lamb Meal 48% 43.0% as fed	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen 0% 0.0% as fed	04 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 40% 4.8% 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 Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils 2 of 5	02 Adult Health Lamb Meal 2 of 5	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen 5 of 5	04 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 0 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Adult Health Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils None	02 Adult Health Lamb Meal None	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen None	04 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based None
05 Brand Recall History Level Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Adult Health Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils None	02 Adult Health Lamb Meal None	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen None	04 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based None
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 Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils 33.5%	02 Adult Health Lamb Meal 43.0%	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen 0.0%	04 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 4.8%
Kcal / Cup	01 Adult Health Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils 376	02 Adult Health Lamb Meal 454	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen --	04 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based --
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Adult Health Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils -- No price on file.	02 Adult Health Lamb Meal $2.80 30 lb bag, PetMeds	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen -- No price on file.	04 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based -- 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 Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils -- No price on file.	02 Adult Health Lamb Meal $1.66	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen -- No price on file.	04 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based -- No price on file.
First Five Ingredients	01 Adult Health Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils Deboned turkey, turkey meal (source of glucosamine), peas, lentils, chickpeas	02 Adult Health Lamb Meal Lamb Meal, Oatmeal, Peas, Rice, Chicken Fat (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols)	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen Beef, Ground Beef Bone, Beef Tripe, Beef Liver, Beef Heart	04 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Vegetable broth, chickpeas, potatoes, pea protein, carrots

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.