Two Foods, One Method

• 01 Taste of the Wild High Prairie Puppy Swap Remove
• 02 Taste of the Wild Appalachian Valley Small Breed Canine Swap Remove

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

	01 Taste of the Wild High Prairie Puppy Swap Remove	02 Taste of the Wild Appalachian Valley Small Breed Canine Swap Remove	+ Add A Food	+ Add A Food
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 High Prairie Puppy 31.1%	02 Appalachian Valley Small Breed Canine 35.6% 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 High Prairie Puppy 38% 34.0% as fed	02 Appalachian Valley Small Breed Canine 33% 30.0% 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 High Prairie Puppy 2 of 5	02 Appalachian Valley Small Breed Canine 2 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 High Prairie Puppy None	02 Appalachian Valley Small Breed Canine None
05 Brand Recall History Level Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 High Prairie Puppy 1 None in the last 3 years	02 Appalachian Valley Small Breed Canine 1 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 High Prairie Puppy 34.0%	02 Appalachian Valley Small Breed Canine 30.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 High Prairie Puppy 415	02 Appalachian Valley Small Breed Canine 422
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 High Prairie Puppy $2.14 28 lb bag, Chewy	02 Appalachian Valley Small Breed Canine $2.86 14 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 High Prairie Puppy $1.29 Best in this row	02 Appalachian Valley Small Breed Canine $1.69
First Five Ingredients	01 High Prairie Puppy Water buffalo, lamb meal, sweet potatoes, egg product, garbanzo beans	02 Appalachian Valley Small Breed Canine Venison, lamb meal, garbanzo beans, peas, lentils

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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.