Four Foods, One Method

• 01 Taste of the Wild Sierra Mountain Canine Swap Remove
• 02 Taste of the Wild Ancient Prairie Canine Swap Remove
• 03 OC Raw Dog Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove
• 04 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Swap Remove

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

	01 Taste of the Wild Sierra Mountain Canine Swap Remove	02 Taste of the Wild Ancient Prairie Canine Swap Remove	03 OC Raw Dog Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove	04 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Swap Remove
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Sierra Mountain Canine 27.8%	02 Ancient Prairie Canine 35.6%	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen 56.3% Best in this row	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 46.7%
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 Sierra Mountain Canine 43% 39.0% as fed	02 Ancient Prairie Canine 34% 31.0% as fed Best in this row	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen 0% 0.0% as fed	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 13% 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 Sierra Mountain Canine 3 of 5	02 Ancient Prairie Canine 2 of 5	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen 5 of 5	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 3 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Sierra Mountain Canine None	02 Ancient Prairie Canine None	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen None	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb None
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Sierra Mountain Canine 1 None in the last 3 years	02 Ancient Prairie Canine 1 None in the last 3 years	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen None Best in this row	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 2 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 Sierra Mountain Canine 39.0%	02 Ancient Prairie Canine 31.0%	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen 0.0%	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 0.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 Sierra Mountain Canine 410	02 Ancient Prairie Canine 445	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen --	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb --
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Sierra Mountain Canine $2.11 28 lb bag, Chewy	02 Ancient Prairie Canine $2.11 28 lb bag, Amazon	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen -- No price on file.	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb -- 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 Sierra Mountain Canine $1.29	02 Ancient Prairie Canine $1.18 Best in this row	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen -- No price on file.	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb -- No price on file.
First Five Ingredients	01 Sierra Mountain Canine Lamb, lamb meal, sweet potatoes, egg product, lentils	02 Ancient Prairie Canine Water buffalo, pork, chicken meal, grain sorghum, millet	03 Complete Meals Beef & Produce Grain-Free Frozen Beef, Ground Beef Bone, Beef Tripe, Beef Liver, Beef Heart	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Cage-Free Chicken, Chicken Broth, Beef Broth, Pumpkin, Organic 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.