Four Foods, One Method

• 01 NutriSource Performance Chicken & Rice Swap Remove
• 02 NutriSource Choice Chicken Meal & Barley Swap Remove
• 03 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Swap Remove
• 04 K9 Natural Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Swap Remove

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

	01 NutriSource Performance Chicken & Rice Swap Remove	02 NutriSource Choice Chicken Meal & Barley Swap Remove	03 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Swap Remove	04 K9 Natural Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Swap Remove
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Performance Chicken & Rice 33.3%	02 Choice Chicken Meal & Barley 26.7%	03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 46.7% Best in this row	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 44.4%
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 Performance Chicken & Rice 32% 29.0% as fed	02 Choice Chicken Meal & Barley 47% 42.0% as fed	03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 13% 0.0% as fed	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 24% 21.5% 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 Performance Chicken & Rice 3 of 5	02 Choice Chicken Meal & Barley 1 of 5	03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 3 of 5	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 4 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Performance Chicken & Rice None	02 Choice Chicken Meal & Barley None	03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb None	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish None
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Performance Chicken & Rice 1 None in the last 3 years	02 Choice Chicken Meal & Barley 1 None in the last 3 years	03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 2 None in the last 3 years	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 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 Performance Chicken & Rice 29.0%	02 Choice Chicken Meal & Barley 42.0%	03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 0.0%	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 21.5%
Kcal / Cup	01 Performance Chicken & Rice 488	02 Choice Chicken Meal & Barley 394	03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb --	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 423
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Performance Chicken & Rice $2.10 40 lb bag, Amazon	02 Choice Chicken Meal & Barley $1.65 40 lb bag, Feeders Pet Supply	03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb -- No price on file.	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $7.87 16 lb bag, Chewy
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 Performance Chicken & Rice $1.10	02 Choice Chicken Meal & Barley $0.96 Best in this row	03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb -- No price on file.	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $4.43
First Five Ingredients	01 Performance Chicken & Rice Chicken, Chicken Meal, Brown Rice, Barley, Menhaden Fish Meal (A Source Of Fish Oil)	02 Choice Chicken Meal & Barley chicken meal, whole grain sorghum, barley, pea starch, dried yeast	03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Cage-Free Chicken, Chicken Broth, Beef Broth, Pumpkin, Organic Carrots	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Salmon, Herring, Cod, Whitefish, Dehydrated Herring

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.