Three Foods, One Method

• 01 Natural Balance L.I.D. Limited Ingredient Diets Grain-Free Salmon & Sweet Potato Small Breed Bites Swap Remove
• 02 Natural Balance L.I.D. Limited Ingredient Diets Salmon & Brown Rice Puppy Swap Remove
• 03 TruDog Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free Swap Remove

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

	01 Natural Balance L.I.D. Limited Ingredient Diets Grain-Free Salmon & Sweet Potato Small Breed Bites Swap Remove	02 Natural Balance L.I.D. Limited Ingredient Diets Salmon & Brown Rice Puppy Swap Remove	03 TruDog Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free Swap Remove	+ Add A Food
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 L.I.D. Limited Ingredient Diets Grain-Free Salmon & Sweet Potato Small Breed Bites 26.7%	02 L.I.D. Limited Ingredient Diets Salmon & Brown Rice Puppy 26.7%	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 43.5% 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 L.I.D. Limited Ingredient Diets Grain-Free Salmon & Sweet Potato Small Breed Bites 51% 45.5% as fed	02 L.I.D. Limited Ingredient Diets Salmon & Brown Rice Puppy 48% 43.5% as fed	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 9% 8.0% 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 L.I.D. Limited Ingredient Diets Grain-Free Salmon & Sweet Potato Small Breed Bites 2 of 5	02 L.I.D. Limited Ingredient Diets Salmon & Brown Rice Puppy 2 of 5	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 5 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 L.I.D. Limited Ingredient Diets Grain-Free Salmon & Sweet Potato Small Breed Bites 1 Menadione	02 L.I.D. Limited Ingredient Diets Salmon & Brown Rice Puppy None Best in this row	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free None Best in this row
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 L.I.D. Limited Ingredient Diets Grain-Free Salmon & Sweet Potato Small Breed Bites 2 None in the last 3 years	02 L.I.D. Limited Ingredient Diets Salmon & Brown Rice Puppy 2 None in the last 3 years	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 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 L.I.D. Limited Ingredient Diets Grain-Free Salmon & Sweet Potato Small Breed Bites 45.5%	02 L.I.D. Limited Ingredient Diets Salmon & Brown Rice Puppy 43.5%	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 8.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 L.I.D. Limited Ingredient Diets Grain-Free Salmon & Sweet Potato Small Breed Bites 365	02 L.I.D. Limited Ingredient Diets Salmon & Brown Rice Puppy 385	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 233
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 L.I.D. Limited Ingredient Diets Grain-Free Salmon & Sweet Potato Small Breed Bites $3.67 12 lb bag, CountryMax	02 L.I.D. Limited Ingredient Diets Salmon & Brown Rice Puppy $2.89 48 lb bag, Chewy	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites 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 L.I.D. Limited Ingredient Diets Grain-Free Salmon & Sweet Potato Small Breed Bites $2.41	02 L.I.D. Limited Ingredient Diets Salmon & Brown Rice Puppy $1.70 Best in this row	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free -- No price on file.
First Five Ingredients	01 L.I.D. Limited Ingredient Diets Grain-Free Salmon & Sweet Potato Small Breed Bites Salmon, Menhaden Fish Meal, Sweet Potatoes, Cassava Flour, Potatoes	02 L.I.D. Limited Ingredient Diets Salmon & Brown Rice Puppy Salmon, Menhaden Fish Meal, Brown Rice, Brewers Rice, Rice Bran	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free Beef, Beef Heart, Beef Liver, Beef Lung, Beef Kidney

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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.