Two Foods, One Method

• 01 Purina ONE SmartBlend Small Breed Lamb & Rice Formula Adult Swap Remove
• 02 Purina ONE True Instinct High Protein with Real Chicken & Duck Swap Remove

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

	01 Purina ONE SmartBlend Small Breed Lamb & Rice Formula Adult Swap Remove	02 Purina ONE True Instinct High Protein with Real Chicken & Duck Swap Remove	+ Add A Food	+ Add A Food
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 SmartBlend Small Breed Lamb & Rice Formula Adult 31.8%	02 True Instinct High Protein with Real Chicken & Duck 36.4% 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 SmartBlend Small Breed Lamb & Rice Formula Adult 30% 26.5% as fed Best in this row	02 True Instinct High Protein with Real Chicken & Duck 34% 30.0% 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 SmartBlend Small Breed Lamb & Rice Formula Adult 2 of 5	02 True Instinct High Protein with Real Chicken & Duck 3 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 SmartBlend Small Breed Lamb & Rice Formula Adult 1 Menadione	02 True Instinct High Protein with Real Chicken & Duck 1 Menadione
05 Brand Recall History Level Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 SmartBlend Small Breed Lamb & Rice Formula Adult 6 None in the last 3 years	02 True Instinct High Protein with Real Chicken & Duck 6 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 SmartBlend Small Breed Lamb & Rice Formula Adult 26.5%	02 True Instinct High Protein with Real Chicken & Duck 30.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 SmartBlend Small Breed Lamb & Rice Formula Adult 426	02 True Instinct High Protein with Real Chicken & Duck 357
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 SmartBlend Small Breed Lamb & Rice Formula Adult $2.25 7.4 lb bag, Amazon	02 True Instinct High Protein with Real Chicken & Duck $2.07 27.5 lb bag, Amazon
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 SmartBlend Small Breed Lamb & Rice Formula Adult -- No calorie figure on file.	02 True Instinct High Protein with Real Chicken & Duck $1.15
First Five Ingredients	01 SmartBlend Small Breed Lamb & Rice Formula Adult Lamb, chicken meal, rice, corn protein meal, whole grain corn	02 True Instinct High Protein with Real Chicken & Duck Chicken, Chicken Meal, Soy Flour, Whole Grain Wheat, Beef Fat Preserved with Mixed-Tocopherols

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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.