Three Foods, One Method

• 01 Wellness Core Simple Limited Ingredient Grain-Free Turkey & Potato Swap Remove
• 02 Wellness Core Digestive Health Small Breed Chicken & Brown Rice Swap Remove
• 03 Darwin's Natural Pet Products Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove

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

	01 Wellness Core Simple Limited Ingredient Grain-Free Turkey & Potato Swap Remove	02 Wellness Core Digestive Health Small Breed Chicken & Brown Rice Swap Remove	03 Darwin's Natural Pet Products Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove	+ Add A Food
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Core Simple Limited Ingredient Grain-Free Turkey & Potato 28.9%	02 Core Digestive Health Small Breed Chicken & Brown Rice 36.7%	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen 57.7% 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 Core Simple Limited Ingredient Grain-Free Turkey & Potato 47% 42.0% as fed	02 Core Digestive Health Small Breed Chicken & Brown Rice 37% 33.0% as fed Best in this row	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen 12% 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 Core Simple Limited Ingredient Grain-Free Turkey & Potato 2 of 5	02 Core Digestive Health Small Breed Chicken & Brown Rice 3 of 5	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen 5 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Core Simple Limited Ingredient Grain-Free Turkey & Potato None	02 Core Digestive Health Small Breed Chicken & Brown Rice None	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen None
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Core Simple Limited Ingredient Grain-Free Turkey & Potato 2 None in the last 3 years	02 Core Digestive Health Small Breed Chicken & Brown Rice 2 None in the last 3 years	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen 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 Core Simple Limited Ingredient Grain-Free Turkey & Potato 42.0%	02 Core Digestive Health Small Breed Chicken & Brown Rice 33.0%	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen 0.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 Core Simple Limited Ingredient Grain-Free Turkey & Potato 438	02 Core Digestive Health Small Breed Chicken & Brown Rice 424	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen --
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Core Simple Limited Ingredient Grain-Free Turkey & Potato $3.10 40 lb bag, Chewy	02 Core Digestive Health Small Breed Chicken & Brown Rice $4.00 12 lb bag, Amazon	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen -- 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 Core Simple Limited Ingredient Grain-Free Turkey & Potato $1.95 Best in this row	02 Core Digestive Health Small Breed Chicken & Brown Rice $2.37	03 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen -- No price on file.
First Five Ingredients	01 Core Simple Limited Ingredient Grain-Free Turkey & Potato Deboned Turkey, Turkey Meal, Dried Ground Potatoes, Peas, Potatoes	02 Core Digestive Health Small Breed Chicken & Brown Rice Deboned Chicken, Chicken Meal (source of Glucosamine), Turkey Meal (source of Chondroitin Sulfate), Brown Rice, Oatmeal	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

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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.