Four Foods, One Method

• 01 Royal Canin Small Comfort Care Swap Remove
• 02 Royal Canin Labrador Retriever Adult Swap Remove
• 03 OC Raw Dog Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen 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 Royal Canin Small Comfort Care Swap Remove	02 Royal Canin Labrador Retriever Adult Swap Remove	03 OC Raw Dog Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen 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 Small Comfort Care 21.1%	02 Labrador Retriever Adult 31.3%	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen 56.3% 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 Small Comfort Care 53% 47.4% as fed	02 Labrador Retriever Adult 44% 39.6% as fed	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen 0% 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 Small Comfort Care 2 of 5	02 Labrador Retriever Adult 1 of 5	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen 5 of 5	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 4 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Small Comfort Care None Best in this row	02 Labrador Retriever Adult 1 Menadione	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen None Best in this row	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish None Best in this row
05 Brand Recall History Level Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Small Comfort Care None	02 Labrador Retriever Adult None	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen None	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish None
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 Small Comfort Care 47.4%	02 Labrador Retriever Adult 39.6%	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen 0.0%	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 21.5%
Kcal / Cup	01 Small Comfort Care 316	02 Labrador Retriever Adult 306	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen --	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 423
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Small Comfort Care -- No price on file.	02 Labrador Retriever Adult $3.33 30 lb bag, Amazon	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen -- 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 Small Comfort Care -- No price on file.	02 Labrador Retriever Adult $2.11 Best in this row	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen -- No price on file.	04 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $4.43
First Five Ingredients	01 Small Comfort Care Brewers rice, corn, chicken by-product meal, brewers rice flour, chicken fat	02 Labrador Retriever Adult Corn, chicken by-product meal, oat groats, brewers rice, corn protein meal	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen Beef, Ground Beef Bone, Beef Tripe, Beef Liver, Beef Heart	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.