Four Foods, One Method

• 01 Orijen Fit & Trim Grain-Free Swap Remove
• 02 Orijen Original Grain-Free Swap Remove
• 03 K9 Natural Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Swap Remove
• 04 TruDog Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free Swap Remove

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

	01 Orijen Fit & Trim Grain-Free Swap Remove	02 Orijen Original Grain-Free Swap Remove	03 K9 Natural Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 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 Fit & Trim Grain-Free 47.7% Best in this row	02 Original Grain-Free 43.2%	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 44.4%	04 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 43.5%
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 Fit & Trim Grain-Free 22% 19.0% as fed	02 Original Grain-Free 24% 21.0% as fed	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 24% 21.5% 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. 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 Fit & Trim Grain-Free 4 of 5	02 Original Grain-Free 4 of 5	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 4 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 Fit & Trim Grain-Free None	02 Original Grain-Free None	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish None	04 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free None
05 Brand Recall History Level Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Fit & Trim Grain-Free None	02 Original Grain-Free None	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish None	04 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 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 Fit & Trim Grain-Free 19.0%	02 Original Grain-Free 21.0%	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 21.5%	04 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 8.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 Fit & Trim Grain-Free 401	02 Original Grain-Free 463	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 423	04 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 233
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Fit & Trim Grain-Free $4.25 23.5 lb bag, The Fish and Bone	02 Original Grain-Free $4.32 31 lb bag, Amazon	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $7.87 16 lb bag, Chewy	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 Fit & Trim Grain-Free $2.69	02 Original Grain-Free $2.47 Best in this row	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $4.43	04 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free -- No price on file.
First Five Ingredients	01 Fit & Trim Grain-Free Chicken, chicken liver, turkey giblets (liver, heart, gizzard), turkey, cod	02 Original Grain-Free Fresh chicken (25%), raw turkey (8%), fresh chicken giblets (liver, heart) (7%), raw whole herring (6%), raw whole hake (5%)	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Salmon, Herring, Cod, Whitefish, Dehydrated Herring	04 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free Beef, Beef Heart, Beef Liver, Beef Lung, Beef Kidney

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.