Two Foods, One Method

• 01 NutriSource Element Series Open Waters Swap Remove
• 02 NutriSource Small & Medium Breed Puppy Swap Remove

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

	01 NutriSource Element Series Open Waters Swap Remove	02 NutriSource Small & Medium Breed Puppy Swap Remove	+ Add A Food	+ Add A Food
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Element Series Open Waters 37.8% Best in this row	02 Small & Medium Breed Puppy 35.6%
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 Element Series Open Waters 32% 29.0% as fed	02 Small & Medium Breed Puppy 29% 26.0% 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 Element Series Open Waters 4 of 5	02 Small & Medium Breed Puppy 4 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Element Series Open Waters None	02 Small & Medium Breed Puppy None
05 Brand Recall History Level Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Element Series Open Waters 1 None in the last 3 years	02 Small & Medium Breed Puppy 1 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 Element Series Open Waters 29.0%	02 Small & Medium Breed Puppy 26.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 Element Series Open Waters 504	02 Small & Medium Breed Puppy 514
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Element Series Open Waters $4.41 24 lb bag, Petflow	02 Small & Medium Breed Puppy $2.38 26 lb bag, Grange Co-op
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 Element Series Open Waters $2.45	02 Small & Medium Breed Puppy $1.27 Best in this row
First Five Ingredients	01 Element Series Open Waters haddock, trout, duck, salmon, salmon meal	02 Small & Medium Breed Puppy chicken meal, chicken, brown rice, chicken fat (preserved with tocopherols and citric acid), menhaden fishmeal

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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.