Four Foods, One Method

• 01 NutriSource Small & Medium Breed Puppy Swap Remove
• 02 NutriSource Element Series Outback Trails Swap Remove
• 03 TruDog Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 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 NutriSource Small & Medium Breed Puppy Swap Remove	02 NutriSource Element Series Outback Trails Swap Remove	03 TruDog Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 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 Small & Medium Breed Puppy 35.6%	02 Element Series Outback Trails 37.8%	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 43.5%	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 46.7% 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 Small & Medium Breed Puppy 29% 26.0% as fed	02 Element Series Outback Trails 32% 29.0% as fed	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 9% 8.0% as fed Best in this row	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 Small & Medium Breed Puppy 4 of 5	02 Element Series Outback Trails 4 of 5	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 5 of 5	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 3 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Small & Medium Breed Puppy None	02 Element Series Outback Trails None	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free None	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb None
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Small & Medium Breed Puppy 1 None in the last 3 years	02 Element Series Outback Trails 1 None in the last 3 years	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 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 Small & Medium Breed Puppy 26.0%	02 Element Series Outback Trails 29.0%	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 8.0%	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 0.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 Small & Medium Breed Puppy 514	02 Element Series Outback Trails 494	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 233	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb --
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Small & Medium Breed Puppy $2.38 26 lb bag, Grange Co-op	02 Element Series Outback Trails $4.41 24 lb bag, Petflow	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free -- 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 Small & Medium Breed Puppy $1.27 Best in this row	02 Element Series Outback Trails $2.46	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free -- No price on file.	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb -- No price on file.
First Five Ingredients	01 Small & Medium Breed Puppy chicken meal, chicken, brown rice, chicken fat (preserved with tocopherols and citric acid), menhaden fishmeal	02 Element Series Outback Trails Deboned Lamb, Kangaroo, Deboned Wild Boar, Lamb Meal, Turkey Meal	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free Beef, Beef Heart, Beef Liver, Beef Lung, Beef Kidney	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.