Four Foods, One Method

• 01 NutriSource Grain-Free Chicken & Pea Swap Remove
• 02 TruDog Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 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 Grain-Free Chicken & Pea Swap Remove	02 TruDog Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 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 Grain-Free Chicken & Pea 31.1%	02 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 26.1%	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 Grain-Free Chicken & Pea 35% 31.5% as fed	02 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 40% 4.8% 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 Grain-Free Chicken & Pea 3 of 5	02 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 0 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 Grain-Free Chicken & Pea None	02 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 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 Grain-Free Chicken & Pea 1 None in the last 3 years	02 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based None Best in this row	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 Grain-Free Chicken & Pea 31.5%	02 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 4.8%	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 8.0%	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 0.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 Grain-Free Chicken & Pea 459	02 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based --	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 Grain-Free Chicken & Pea $2.82 26 lb bag, CountryMax	02 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based -- No price on file.	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 Grain-Free Chicken & Pea $1.53	02 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based -- No price on file.	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 Grain-Free Chicken & Pea chicken, chicken meal, peas, pea flour, chicken fat (preserved with tocopherols and citric acid)	02 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Vegetable broth, chickpeas, potatoes, pea protein, carrots	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.