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Three Foods, One Method

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

Three Foods, One Method. Each row is one measure; the best figure in a row is marked.
01 Purina Bella Natural Bites with a Blend of Real Turkey & Chicken Swap Remove 02 Beneful Purina Beneful Grain-Free Farm-Raised Chicken Swap Remove 03 Darwin's Natural Pet Products Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove + Add A Food
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream. 01 Bella Natural Bites with a Blend of Real Turkey & Chicken 29.5% 02 Purina Beneful Grain-Free Farm-Raised Chicken 27.3% 03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen 56.0% 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 Bella Natural Bites with a Blend of Real Turkey & Chicken 42% 36.5% as fed Best in this row 02 Purina Beneful Grain-Free Farm-Raised Chicken 46% 40.0% as fed 03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen 12% 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 Bella Natural Bites with a Blend of Real Turkey & Chicken 2 of 5 02 Purina Beneful Grain-Free Farm-Raised Chicken 2 of 5 03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen 3 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list. 01 Bella Natural Bites with a Blend of Real Turkey & Chicken 1 Menadione 02 Purina Beneful Grain-Free Farm-Raised Chicken 1 Menadione 03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen None Best in this row
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe. 01 Bella Natural Bites with a Blend of Real Turkey & Chicken 6 None in the last 3 years 02 Purina Beneful Grain-Free Farm-Raised Chicken 6 None in the last 3 years 03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen None Best in this row
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 Bella Natural Bites with a Blend of Real Turkey & Chicken 36.5% 02 Purina Beneful Grain-Free Farm-Raised Chicken 40.0% 03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen 0.0%
Kcal / Cup 01 Bella Natural Bites with a Blend of Real Turkey & Chicken 357 02 Purina Beneful Grain-Free Farm-Raised Chicken 351 03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen --
First Five Ingredients 01 Bella Natural Bites with a Blend of Real Turkey & Chicken Turkey, Whole Grain Corn, Whole Grain Wheat, Beef Fat Preserved with Mixed-Tocopherols, Corn Gluten Meal 02 Purina Beneful Grain-Free Farm-Raised Chicken Chicken, pea starch, cassava root flour, chicken meal, soybean germ meal 03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Premium Beef Grain-Free Frozen Antibiotic-Free Meat (72.41%): Ground Lean Beef Meat, Beef Hearts, Beef Livers. Organic Vegetables (24.43%): Cabbage, Lettuce, Squash (seasonal)

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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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