Four Foods, One Method

• 01 Royal Canin Small Indoor Adult Swap Remove
• 02 K9 Natural Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Swap Remove
• 03 TruDog Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free Swap Remove
• 04 TruDog Grain Free Turkey & Duck Swap Remove

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

	01 Royal Canin Small Indoor Adult Swap Remove	02 K9 Natural Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Swap Remove	03 TruDog Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free Swap Remove	04 TruDog Grain Free Turkey & Duck Swap Remove
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Small Indoor Adult 21.1%	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 44.4%	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 43.5%	04 Grain Free Turkey & Duck 50.0% 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 Small Indoor Adult 55% 49.3% as fed	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 24% 21.5% as fed	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 9% 8.0% as fed Best in this row	04 Grain Free Turkey & Duck 11% 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 Small Indoor Adult 2 of 5	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 4 of 5	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 5 of 5	04 Grain Free Turkey & Duck 4 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Small Indoor Adult None	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish None	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free None	04 Grain Free Turkey & Duck None
05 Brand Recall History Level Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Small Indoor Adult None	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish None	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free None	04 Grain Free Turkey & Duck 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 Indoor Adult 49.3%	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 21.5%	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 8.0%	04 Grain Free Turkey & Duck 0.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 Small Indoor Adult 354	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 423	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 233	04 Grain Free Turkey & Duck 195
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Small Indoor Adult $8.00 2.5 lb bag, Amazon	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $7.87 16 lb bag, Chewy	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free -- No price on file.	04 Grain Free Turkey & Duck -- 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 Small Indoor Adult $4.88	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $4.43 Best in this row	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free -- No price on file.	04 Grain Free Turkey & Duck -- No price on file.
First Five Ingredients	01 Small Indoor Adult Brewers rice, chicken by-product meal, corn, brown rice, chicken fat	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Salmon, Herring, Cod, Whitefish, Dehydrated Herring	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free Beef, Beef Heart, Beef Liver, Beef Lung, Beef Kidney	04 Grain Free Turkey & Duck Turkey, turkey broth, turkey liver, ground dried peas, duck

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.