Four Foods, One Method

• 01 Holistic Select Adult Health Large & Giant Breed Swap Remove
• 02 Holistic Select Adult Health Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils Swap Remove
• 03 Darwin's Natural Pet Products Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Comprehensive Cancer Support Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove
• 04 K9 Natural Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Swap Remove

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

	01 Holistic Select Adult Health Large & Giant Breed Swap Remove	02 Holistic Select Adult Health Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils Swap Remove	03 Darwin's Natural Pet Products Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Comprehensive Cancer Support Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove	04 K9 Natural Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Swap Remove
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Adult Health Large & Giant Breed 26.7%	02 Adult Health Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils 35.6%	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Comprehensive Cancer Support Grain-Free Frozen 53.6% Best in this row	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 44.4%
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 Large & Giant Breed 48% 43.0% as fed	02 Adult Health Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils 37% 33.5% as fed	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Comprehensive Cancer Support Grain-Free Frozen 7% 0.0% as fed	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 24% 21.5% 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 Adult Health Large & Giant Breed 2 of 5	02 Adult Health Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils 2 of 5	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Comprehensive Cancer Support Grain-Free Frozen 4 of 5	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 4 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Adult Health Large & Giant Breed None	02 Adult Health Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils None	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Comprehensive Cancer Support Grain-Free Frozen None	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish None
05 Brand Recall History Level Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Adult Health Large & Giant Breed None	02 Adult Health Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils None	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Comprehensive Cancer Support Grain-Free Frozen None	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 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 Large & Giant Breed 43.0%	02 Adult Health Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils 33.5%	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Comprehensive Cancer Support Grain-Free Frozen 0.0%	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 21.5%
Kcal / Cup	01 Adult Health Large & Giant Breed 453	02 Adult Health Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils 376	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Comprehensive Cancer Support Grain-Free Frozen --	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 423
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Adult Health Large & Giant Breed $2.80 30 lb bag, PetMeds	02 Adult Health Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils -- No price on file.	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Comprehensive Cancer Support Grain-Free Frozen -- No price on file.	04 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 Adult Health Large & Giant Breed $1.62 Best in this row	02 Adult Health Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils -- No price on file.	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Comprehensive Cancer Support Grain-Free Frozen -- No price on file.	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $4.43
First Five Ingredients	01 Adult Health Large & Giant Breed Chicken Meal (source of Glucosamine and Chondroitin Sulfate), Rice, Oatmeal, Oats, Chicken Fat	02 Adult Health Grain-Free Deboned Turkey & Lentils Deboned turkey, turkey meal (source of glucosamine), peas, lentils, chickpeas	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Comprehensive Cancer Support Grain-Free Frozen White Fish (Pollock), Turkey Neck, Turkey Gizzard, Beef Liver, Broccoli	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Salmon, Herring, Cod, Whitefish, Dehydrated Herring

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.