Four Foods, One Method

• 01 Wellness Complete Health Deboned Chicken & Oatmeal Swap Remove
• 02 Darwin's Natural Pet Products Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove
• 03 Darwin's Natural Pet Products Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen 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 Wellness Complete Health Deboned Chicken & Oatmeal Swap Remove	02 Darwin's Natural Pet Products Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove	03 Darwin's Natural Pet Products Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove	04 TruDog Grain Free Turkey & Duck Swap Remove
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Complete Health Deboned Chicken & Oatmeal 26.7%	02 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen 56.5%	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen 57.7% Best in this row	04 Grain Free Turkey & Duck 50.0%
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 Complete Health Deboned Chicken & Oatmeal 49% 44.0% as fed	02 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen 13% 0.0% as fed	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen 12% 0.0% as fed	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 Complete Health Deboned Chicken & Oatmeal 2 of 5	02 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen 3 of 5	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen 5 of 5	04 Grain Free Turkey & Duck 4 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Complete Health Deboned Chicken & Oatmeal None	02 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen None	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen None	04 Grain Free Turkey & Duck None
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Complete Health Deboned Chicken & Oatmeal 2 None in the last 3 years	02 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen None Best in this row	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen None Best in this row	04 Grain Free Turkey & Duck None Best in this row
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 Complete Health Deboned Chicken & Oatmeal 44.0%	02 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen 0.0%	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen 0.0%	04 Grain Free Turkey & Duck 0.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 Complete Health Deboned Chicken & Oatmeal 427	02 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen --	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen --	04 Grain Free Turkey & Duck 195
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Complete Health Deboned Chicken & Oatmeal $1.96 38 lb bag, Amazon	02 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen -- No price on file.	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen -- 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 Complete Health Deboned Chicken & Oatmeal $1.21	02 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen -- No price on file.	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen -- No price on file.	04 Grain Free Turkey & Duck -- No price on file.
First Five Ingredients	01 Complete Health Deboned Chicken & Oatmeal Deboned Chicken, Chicken Meal (source of Glucosamine and Chondroitin Sulfate), Oatmeal, Barley, Brown Rice	02 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Intelligent Design for Dogs Joint Support Grain-Free Frozen White fish (Pollock), Turkey neck, Turkey heart, Broccoli, Sweet potato	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen Chicken, Chicken Necks (bone in), Chicken Gizzards, Chicken Liver, Chicken Hearts	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.