Four Foods, One Method

• 01 Pinnacle Grain-Free Trout & Sweet Potato Swap Remove
• 02 Pinnacle Grain-Free Turkey & Pumpkin Swap Remove
• 03 NutriSource PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free Swap Remove
• 04 Darwin's Natural Pet Products Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove

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

	01 Pinnacle Grain-Free Trout & Sweet Potato Swap Remove	02 Pinnacle Grain-Free Turkey & Pumpkin Swap Remove	03 NutriSource PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free Swap Remove	04 Darwin's Natural Pet Products Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Grain-Free Trout & Sweet Potato 30.0%	02 Grain-Free Turkey & Pumpkin 30.0%	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 30.0%	04 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 Grain-Free Trout & Sweet Potato 46% 41.0% as fed	02 Grain-Free Turkey & Pumpkin 38% 34.5% as fed Best in this row	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 40% 36.0% as fed	04 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 Grain-Free Trout & Sweet Potato 2 of 5	02 Grain-Free Turkey & Pumpkin 2 of 5	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 2 of 5	04 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 Grain-Free Trout & Sweet Potato None	02 Grain-Free Turkey & Pumpkin None	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free None	04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen None
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Grain-Free Trout & Sweet Potato None Best in this row	02 Grain-Free Turkey & Pumpkin None Best in this row	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 1 None in the last 3 years	04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen 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 Grain-Free Trout & Sweet Potato 41.0%	02 Grain-Free Turkey & Pumpkin 34.5%	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 36.0%	04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen 0.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 Grain-Free Trout & Sweet Potato 373	02 Grain-Free Turkey & Pumpkin 400	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 406	04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen --
First Five Ingredients	01 Grain-Free Trout & Sweet Potato Trout, Garbanzo Beans, Peas, Pea Flour, Herring Meal	02 Grain-Free Turkey & Pumpkin Turkey, Turkey Meal, Peas, Pea Flour, Garbanzo Beans	03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free lamb, lamb meal, garbanzo beans, chickpea flour, dried plain beet pulp	04 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

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.