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Four Foods, One Method

The same five measures, applied to each food from its own figures.

Prices are the lowest per pound we found across bag sizes, from our latest checks. Stores change prices often.

Four Foods, One Method. Each row is one measure; the best figure in a row is marked.
01 Natural Choice Nutro Natural Choice Senior Chicken & Brown Rice Swap Remove 02 Natural Choice Nutro Natural Choice Adult Beef & Brown Rice Swap Remove 03 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Swap Remove 04 TruDog Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free Swap Remove
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream. 01 Nutro Natural Choice Senior Chicken & Brown Rice 26.7% 02 Nutro Natural Choice Adult Beef & Brown Rice 26.7% 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 46.7% Best in this row 04 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 43.5%
02 Carbohydrate Load, Dry Matter Lower Is Better Estimated, 6% ash assumed. Estimated, 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 Nutro Natural Choice Senior Chicken & Brown Rice 49% 44.0% as fed 02 Nutro Natural Choice Adult Beef & Brown Rice 47% 42.5% as fed 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 13% 0.0% as fed 04 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. The 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 Nutro Natural Choice Senior Chicken & Brown Rice 2 of 5 02 Nutro Natural Choice Adult Beef & Brown Rice 2 of 5 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 3 of 5 04 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 5 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list. 01 Nutro Natural Choice Senior Chicken & Brown Rice None 02 Nutro Natural Choice Adult Beef & Brown Rice None 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb None 04 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free None
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe. 01 Nutro Natural Choice Senior Chicken & Brown Rice None Best in this row 02 Nutro Natural Choice Adult Beef & Brown Rice None Best in this row 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 2 None in the last 3 years 04 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free None Best in this row
Starch, As Fed Estimated, 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 Nutro Natural Choice Senior Chicken & Brown Rice 44.0% 02 Nutro Natural Choice Adult Beef & Brown Rice 42.5% 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 0.0% 04 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 8.0%
Kcal / Cup 01 Nutro Natural Choice Senior Chicken & Brown Rice 319 02 Nutro Natural Choice Adult Beef & Brown Rice 370 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb -- 04 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 233
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes 01 Nutro Natural Choice Senior Chicken & Brown Rice $2.50 30 lb bag, Amazon 02 Nutro Natural Choice Adult Beef & Brown Rice $2.68 28 lb bag, Amazon 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb -- No price on file. 04 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 Nutro Natural Choice Senior Chicken & Brown Rice $1.54 Best in this row 02 Nutro Natural Choice Adult Beef & Brown Rice $1.62 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb -- No price on file. 04 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free -- No price on file.
First Five Ingredients 01 Nutro Natural Choice Senior Chicken & Brown Rice Chicken, Chicken Meal (source of Glucosamine and Chondroitin Sulfate), Whole Grain Barley, Split Peas, Brewers Rice 02 Nutro Natural Choice Adult Beef & Brown Rice Beef, pork meal, brown rice, barley, oatmeal 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Cage-Free Chicken, Chicken Broth, Beef Broth, Pumpkin, Organic Carrots 04 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free Beef, Beef Heart, Beef Liver, Beef Lung, Beef Kidney

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The comparison holds four foods. Use Swap on a column to put a different one in its place.

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.

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