Four Foods, One Method

• 01 Merrick Backcountry Raw Infused Puppy Swap Remove
• 02 Taste of the Wild High Prairie Puppy Swap Remove
• 03 TruDog Raw Turkey Meal Bites Grain-Free 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 Merrick Backcountry Raw Infused Puppy Swap Remove	02 Taste of the Wild High Prairie Puppy Swap Remove	03 TruDog Raw Turkey Meal Bites Grain-Free 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 Backcountry Raw Infused Puppy 31.5%	02 High Prairie Puppy 31.1%	03 Raw Turkey Meal Bites Grain-Free 54.3% 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 Backcountry Raw Infused Puppy 40% 35.5% as fed	02 High Prairie Puppy 38% 34.0% as fed	03 Raw Turkey Meal Bites Grain-Free 16% 15.0% as fed Best in this row	04 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 Backcountry Raw Infused Puppy 2 of 5	02 High Prairie Puppy 2 of 5	03 Raw Turkey Meal Bites Grain-Free 4 of 5	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 4 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Backcountry Raw Infused Puppy 1 Menadione	02 High Prairie Puppy None Best in this row	03 Raw Turkey Meal Bites Grain-Free None Best in this row	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish None Best in this row
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Backcountry Raw Infused Puppy 1 None in the last 3 years	02 High Prairie Puppy 1 None in the last 3 years	03 Raw Turkey Meal Bites Grain-Free None Best in this row	04 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 Backcountry Raw Infused Puppy 35.5%	02 High Prairie Puppy 34.0%	03 Raw Turkey Meal Bites Grain-Free 15.0%	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 21.5%
Kcal / Cup	01 Backcountry Raw Infused Puppy 480	02 High Prairie Puppy 415	03 Raw Turkey Meal Bites Grain-Free 231	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 423
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Backcountry Raw Infused Puppy $5.60 10 lb bag, Chewy	02 High Prairie Puppy $2.14 28 lb bag, Chewy	03 Raw Turkey Meal Bites Grain-Free -- 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 Backcountry Raw Infused Puppy $3.28	02 High Prairie Puppy $1.29 Best in this row	03 Raw Turkey Meal Bites Grain-Free -- No price on file.	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $4.43
First Five Ingredients	01 Backcountry Raw Infused Puppy Deboned Chicken, Brown Rice, Chicken Meal, Barley, Oat Meal	02 High Prairie Puppy Water buffalo, lamb meal, sweet potatoes, egg product, garbanzo beans	03 Raw Turkey Meal Bites Grain-Free Turkey, Turkey Heart, Turkey Liver, Herring Oil (source of Omega 3 Fatty Acids), Mixed Tocopherols (preservative)	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.