Four Foods, One Method

• 01 Royal Canin Medium Sensitive Skin Care Swap Remove
• 02 Royal Canin Great Dane Adult Swap Remove
• 03 K9 Natural Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Swap Remove
• 04 TruDog Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Swap Remove

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

	01 Royal Canin Medium Sensitive Skin Care Swap Remove	02 Royal Canin Great Dane Adult Swap Remove	03 K9 Natural Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Swap Remove	04 TruDog Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Swap Remove
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Medium Sensitive Skin Care 24.6%	02 Great Dane Adult 23.3%	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 44.4% Best in this row	04 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 26.1%
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 Medium Sensitive Skin Care 48% 43.3% as fed	02 Great Dane Adult 40% 35.8% as fed	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 24% 21.5% as fed Best in this row	04 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 40% 4.8% 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 Medium Sensitive Skin Care 1 of 5	02 Great Dane Adult 2 of 5	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 4 of 5	04 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 0 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Medium Sensitive Skin Care None	02 Great Dane Adult None	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish None	04 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based None
05 Brand Recall History Level Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Medium Sensitive Skin Care None	02 Great Dane Adult None	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish None	04 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 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 Medium Sensitive Skin Care 43.3%	02 Great Dane Adult 35.8%	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 21.5%	04 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 4.8%
Kcal / Cup	01 Medium Sensitive Skin Care 373	02 Great Dane Adult 390	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 423	04 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based --
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Medium Sensitive Skin Care $3.53 17 lb bag, royalcaninusainc.com	02 Great Dane Adult $3.33 30 lb bag, Amazon	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $7.87 16 lb bag, Chewy	04 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based -- 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 Medium Sensitive Skin Care $2.05	02 Great Dane Adult $1.77 Best in this row	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $4.43	04 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based -- No price on file.
First Five Ingredients	01 Medium Sensitive Skin Care Brewers rice, wheat gluten, chicken fat, wheat, corn gluten meal	02 Great Dane Adult Chicken fat, chicken by-product meal, tapioca, brewers rice, corn	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Salmon, Herring, Cod, Whitefish, Dehydrated Herring	04 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Vegetable broth, chickpeas, potatoes, pea protein, 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.