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Four Foods, One Method

The same five measures, applied to each food from its own figures.

Prices are the lowest per pound we found across bag sizes, from our latest checks. Stores change prices often.

Four Foods, One Method. Each row is one measure; the best figure in a row is marked.
01 NutriSource Grain-Free Woodlands Select Swap Remove 02 NutriSource Choice Turkey Meal & Barley Swap Remove 03 NutriSource PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree 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 Grain-Free Woodlands Select 28.9% 02 Choice Turkey Meal & Barley 25.6% 03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 30.0% 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. Estimated, 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 Woodlands Select 39% 35.0% as fed Best in this row 02 Choice Turkey Meal & Barley 48% 43.0% as fed 03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 40% 36.0% 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. The 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 Woodlands Select 4 of 5 02 Choice Turkey Meal & Barley 1 of 5 03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 2 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 Grain-Free Woodlands Select None 02 Choice Turkey Meal & Barley None 03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree 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 Grain-Free Woodlands Select 1 None in the last 3 years Best in this row 02 Choice Turkey Meal & Barley 1 None in the last 3 years Best in this row 03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 1 None in the last 3 years Best in this row 04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 2 None in the last 3 years
Starch, As Fed Estimated, 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 Woodlands Select 35.0% 02 Choice Turkey Meal & Barley 43.0% 03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 36.0% 04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 0.0%
Kcal / Cup 01 Grain-Free Woodlands Select 430 02 Choice Turkey Meal & Barley 396 03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 406 04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb --
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes 01 Grain-Free Woodlands Select $3.47 26 lb bag, Amazon 02 Choice Turkey Meal & Barley $1.50 40 lb bag, Theisen's 03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree 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 Grain-Free Woodlands Select $1.96 02 Choice Turkey Meal & Barley $0.87 Best in this row 03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free -- No price on file. 04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb -- No price on file.
First Five Ingredients 01 Grain-Free Woodlands Select Wild Boar, Turkey, Turkey Meal, Menhaden Fish Meal, Green Lentils 02 Choice Turkey Meal & Barley turkey meal, whole grain sorghum, peas, barley, pea starch 03 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free lamb, lamb meal, garbanzo beans, chickpea flour, dried plain beet pulp 04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Cage-Free Chicken, Chicken Broth, Beef Broth, Pumpkin, Organic Carrots

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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.

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