Four Foods, One Method
The same five measures, applied to each food from its own figures.
Open Your Saved Comparison- 01 Solid Gold Young at Heart Senior Chicken, Sweet Potato & Spinach Swap Remove
- 02 Solid Gold Love at First Bark Puppy Chicken, Potato & Apple Swap Remove
- 03 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Swap Remove
- 04 TruDog Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free Swap Remove
| 01 Solid Gold Young at Heart Senior Chicken, Sweet Potato & Spinach Swap Remove | 02 Solid Gold Love at First Bark Puppy Chicken, Potato & Apple Swap Remove | 03 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Swap Remove | 04 TruDog Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free Swap Remove | |
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| 01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream. | 01 Young at Heart Senior Chicken, Sweet Potato & Spinach 30.0% | 02 Love at First Bark Puppy Chicken, Potato & Apple 31.1% | 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 46.7% Best in this row | 04 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 43.5% |
| 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 Young at Heart Senior Chicken, Sweet Potato & Spinach 44% 40.0% as fed | 02 Love at First Bark Puppy Chicken, Potato & Apple 39% 35.0% as fed | 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 13% 0.0% as fed | 04 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 9% 8.0% as fed Best in this row |
| 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 Young at Heart Senior Chicken, Sweet Potato & Spinach 2 of 5 | 02 Love at First Bark Puppy Chicken, Potato & Apple 3 of 5 | 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 3 of 5 | 04 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 5 of 5 |
| 04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list. | 01 Young at Heart Senior Chicken, Sweet Potato & Spinach None | 02 Love at First Bark Puppy Chicken, Potato & Apple None | 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb None | 04 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free None |
| 05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe. | 01 Young at Heart Senior Chicken, Sweet Potato & Spinach 1 None in the last 3 years | 02 Love at First Bark Puppy Chicken, Potato & Apple 1 None in the last 3 years | 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 2 None in the last 3 years | 04 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 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 Young at Heart Senior Chicken, Sweet Potato & Spinach 40.0% | 02 Love at First Bark Puppy Chicken, Potato & Apple 35.0% | 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 0.0% | 04 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 8.0% |
| Kcal / Cup | 01 Young at Heart Senior Chicken, Sweet Potato & Spinach 340 | 02 Love at First Bark Puppy Chicken, Potato & Apple 400 | 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb -- | 04 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 233 |
| First Five Ingredients | 01 Young at Heart Senior Chicken, Sweet Potato & Spinach Chicken, Chicken Meal, Sweet Potatoes, Chickpeas, Peas | 02 Love at First Bark Puppy Chicken, Potato & Apple Chicken, Chicken Meal, Potatoes, Peas, Chicken Fat (Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols) | 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Cage-Free Chicken, Chicken Broth, Beef Broth, Pumpkin, Organic Carrots | 04 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free Beef, Beef Heart, Beef Liver, Beef Lung, Beef Kidney |
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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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