Four Foods, One Method

• 01 Wysong Optimal Adult Grain-Free Swap Remove
• 02 Wysong Optimize Beef Heart & Liver Grain-Free Swap Remove
• 03 K9 Natural Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 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 Wysong Optimal Adult Grain-Free Swap Remove	02 Wysong Optimize Beef Heart & Liver Grain-Free Swap Remove	03 K9 Natural Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 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 Optimal Adult Grain-Free 46.7% Best in this row	02 Optimize Beef Heart & Liver Grain-Free 45.8%	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 44.4%	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 46.7% 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 Optimal Adult Grain-Free 25% 22.5% as fed	02 Optimize Beef Heart & Liver Grain-Free 18% 17.5% as fed Best in this row	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 24% 21.5% 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 Optimal Adult Grain-Free 3 of 5	02 Optimize Beef Heart & Liver Grain-Free 2 of 5	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 4 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 Optimal Adult Grain-Free None	02 Optimize Beef Heart & Liver Grain-Free None	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish None	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb None
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Optimal Adult Grain-Free None Best in this row	02 Optimize Beef Heart & Liver Grain-Free None Best in this row	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 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 Optimal Adult Grain-Free 22.5%	02 Optimize Beef Heart & Liver Grain-Free 17.5%	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 21.5%	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 0.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 Optimal Adult Grain-Free --	02 Optimize Beef Heart & Liver Grain-Free --	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 423	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb --
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Optimal Adult Grain-Free -- No price on file.	02 Optimize Beef Heart & Liver Grain-Free -- No price on file.	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $7.87 16 lb bag, Chewy	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 Optimal Adult Grain-Free -- No price on file.	02 Optimize Beef Heart & Liver Grain-Free -- No price on file.	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $4.43	04 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb -- No price on file.
First Five Ingredients	01 Optimal Adult Grain-Free Chicken Meal, Organic Chicken, Turkey Meal, Pea Protein, Peas	02 Optimize Beef Heart & Liver Grain-Free Beef Heart, Beef Liver, Green Lipped Mussel, Cheddar Cheese, Monterey Jack Cheese	03 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Salmon, Herring, Cod, Whitefish, Dehydrated Herring	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.