Four Foods, One Method

• 01 Pedigree Big Dogs Roasted Chicken, Rice & Vegetable Swap Remove
• 02 Pedigree Adult Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor Swap Remove
• 03 OC Raw Dog Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove
• 04 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Swap Remove

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

	01 Pedigree Big Dogs Roasted Chicken, Rice & Vegetable Swap Remove	02 Pedigree Adult Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor Swap Remove	03 OC Raw Dog Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove	04 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Swap Remove
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Big Dogs Roasted Chicken, Rice & Vegetable 25.0%	02 Adult Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor 23.9%	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen 56.3% Best in this row	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 46.7%
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 Big Dogs Roasted Chicken, Rice & Vegetable 52% 46.0% as fed Best in this row	02 Adult Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor 53% 47.0% as fed	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen 0% 0.0% as fed	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 13% 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 Big Dogs Roasted Chicken, Rice & Vegetable 1 of 5	02 Adult Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor 0 of 5	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen 5 of 5	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 3 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Big Dogs Roasted Chicken, Rice & Vegetable 5 BHA, Red 40, Blue 2, Yellow 5, Yellow 6	02 Adult Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor 5 BHA, Red 40, Blue 2, Yellow 5, Yellow 6	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen None Best in this row	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb None Best in this row
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Big Dogs Roasted Chicken, Rice & Vegetable 5 2 in the last 3 years	02 Adult Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor 5 2 in the last 3 years	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen None Best in this row	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 2 None in the last 3 years
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 Big Dogs Roasted Chicken, Rice & Vegetable 46.0%	02 Adult Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor 47.0%	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen 0.0%	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 0.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 Big Dogs Roasted Chicken, Rice & Vegetable 326	02 Adult Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor 314	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen --	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb --
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Big Dogs Roasted Chicken, Rice & Vegetable $0.66 38 lb bag, PetSmart	02 Adult Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor $0.68 38 lb bag, Target	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen -- No price on file.	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb -- 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 Big Dogs Roasted Chicken, Rice & Vegetable $0.42 Best in this row	02 Adult Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor $0.44	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen -- No price on file.	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb -- No price on file.
First Five Ingredients	01 Big Dogs Roasted Chicken, Rice & Vegetable Ground Whole Grain Corn, Chicken By-Product Meal (Source Of Glucosamine And Chondroitin Sulfate), Corn Gluten Meal, Animal Fat (Source Of Omega 6 Fatty Acids [preserved with Bha/citric Acid]), Meat And Bone Meal (Source Of Calcium)	02 Adult Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor Ground whole grain corn, meat and bone meal, soybean meal, animal fat (source of omega 6 fatty acids [preserved with bha & citric acid]), corn gluten meal	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen Beef, Ground Beef Bone, Beef Tripe, Beef Liver, Beef Heart	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Cage-Free Chicken, Chicken Broth, Beef Broth, Pumpkin, Organic Carrots

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.