Three Foods, One Method

• 01 Science Diet Hill’s Science Diet Adult Perfect Weight Chicken Swap Remove
• 02 K9 Natural Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Swap Remove
• 03 TruDog Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Swap Remove

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

	01 Science Diet Hill’s Science Diet Adult Perfect Weight Chicken Swap Remove	02 K9 Natural Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Swap Remove	03 TruDog Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Swap Remove	+ Add A Food
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Perfect Weight Chicken 26.7%	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 44.4% Best in this row	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 26.1%
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 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Perfect Weight Chicken 52% 47.0% as fed	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 24% 21.5% as fed Best in this row	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 40% 4.8% 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 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Perfect Weight Chicken 1 of 5	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 4 of 5	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 0 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Perfect Weight Chicken None	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish None	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based None
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Perfect Weight Chicken 4 None in the last 3 years	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish None Best in this row	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 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 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Perfect Weight Chicken 47.0%	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 21.5%	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 4.8%
Kcal / Cup	01 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Perfect Weight Chicken 298	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish 423	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based --
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Perfect Weight Chicken $3.72 25 lb bag, Amazon	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $7.87 16 lb bag, Chewy	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based -- 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 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Perfect Weight Chicken $2.57 Best in this row	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish $4.43	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based -- No price on file.
First Five Ingredients	01 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Perfect Weight Chicken Chicken, Cracked Pearled Barley, Brown Rice, Pea Fiber, Corn Protein Meal	02 Baked & Coated Wild-Ocean Fish Salmon, Herring, Cod, Whitefish, Dehydrated Herring	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Vegetable broth, chickpeas, potatoes, pea protein, carrots

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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.