Three Foods, One Method

• 01 Blue Seal Entrust Active Chicken Meal & Barley Swap Remove
• 02 Native Blue Seal Native Level 3 Chicken Meal & Rice Swap Remove
• 03 Darwin's Natural Pet Products Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove

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

	01 Blue Seal Entrust Active Chicken Meal & Barley Swap Remove	02 Native Blue Seal Native Level 3 Chicken Meal & Rice Swap Remove	03 Darwin's Natural Pet Products Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove	+ Add A Food
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Entrust Active Chicken Meal & Barley 31.5%	02 Blue Seal Native Level 3 Chicken Meal & Rice 33.3%	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen 57.7% 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 Entrust Active Chicken Meal & Barley 37% 33.0% as fed	02 Blue Seal Native Level 3 Chicken Meal & Rice 34% 30.5% as fed Best in this row	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen 12% 0.0% 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 Entrust Active Chicken Meal & Barley 2 of 5	02 Blue Seal Native Level 3 Chicken Meal & Rice 2 of 5	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen 5 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Entrust Active Chicken Meal & Barley None	02 Blue Seal Native Level 3 Chicken Meal & Rice None	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen None
05 Brand Recall History Level Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Entrust Active Chicken Meal & Barley None	02 Blue Seal Native Level 3 Chicken Meal & Rice None	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen 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 Entrust Active Chicken Meal & Barley 33.0%	02 Blue Seal Native Level 3 Chicken Meal & Rice 30.5%	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen 0.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 Entrust Active Chicken Meal & Barley 378	02 Blue Seal Native Level 3 Chicken Meal & Rice 438	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen --
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Entrust Active Chicken Meal & Barley $1.43 35 lb bag, CountryMax	02 Blue Seal Native Level 3 Chicken Meal & Rice $1.60 40 lb bag, Chewy	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen -- 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 Entrust Active Chicken Meal & Barley $0.83	02 Blue Seal Native Level 3 Chicken Meal & Rice -- No calorie figure on file.	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen -- No price on file.
First Five Ingredients	01 Entrust Active Chicken Meal & Barley Chicken Meal, Ground Corn, Ground Barley, Chicken Fat (Mixed Tocopherols Preservative), Corn Gluten Meal	02 Blue Seal Native Level 3 Chicken Meal & Rice Chicken Meal, Brewers Rice, Ground Barley, Chicken Fat (Mixed Tocopherols Preservative), Ground Flaxseed	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen Chicken, Chicken Necks (bone in), Chicken Gizzards, Chicken Liver, Chicken Hearts

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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.