Four Foods, One Method

• 01 Science Diet Hill’s Science Diet Adult Light Small Bites with Chicken Meal & Barley Swap Remove
• 02 Science Diet Hill’s Science Diet Light Small & Mini Chicken Swap Remove
• 03 TruDog Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free Swap Remove
• 04 NutriSource PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free Swap Remove

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

	01 Science Diet Hill’s Science Diet Adult Light Small Bites with Chicken Meal & Barley Swap Remove	02 Science Diet Hill’s Science Diet Light Small & Mini Chicken Swap Remove	03 TruDog Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free Swap Remove	04 NutriSource PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free Swap Remove
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Light Small Bites with Chicken Meal & Barley 22.3%	02 Hill’s Science Diet Light Small & Mini Chicken 26.7%	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 43.5% Best in this row	04 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 30.0%
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 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Light Small Bites with Chicken Meal & Barley 49% 44.0% as fed	02 Hill’s Science Diet Light Small & Mini Chicken 42% 38.0% as fed	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 9% 8.0% as fed Best in this row	04 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 40% 36.0% 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 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Light Small Bites with Chicken Meal & Barley 1 of 5	02 Hill’s Science Diet Light Small & Mini Chicken 1 of 5	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 5 of 5	04 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 2 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Light Small Bites with Chicken Meal & Barley None	02 Hill’s Science Diet Light Small & Mini Chicken None	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free None	04 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free None
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Light Small Bites with Chicken Meal & Barley 4 None in the last 3 years	02 Hill’s Science Diet Light Small & Mini Chicken 4 None in the last 3 years	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free None Best in this row	04 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 1 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 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Light Small Bites with Chicken Meal & Barley 44.0%	02 Hill’s Science Diet Light Small & Mini Chicken 38.0%	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 8.0%	04 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 36.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Light Small Bites with Chicken Meal & Barley 243	02 Hill’s Science Diet Light Small & Mini Chicken 291	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free 233	04 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 406
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Light Small Bites with Chicken Meal & Barley $2.90 30 lb bag, Amazon	02 Hill’s Science Diet Light Small & Mini Chicken $3.93 15.5 lb bag, Amazon	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free -- No price on file.	04 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free -- 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 Light Small Bites with Chicken Meal & Barley $2.16 Best in this row	02 Hill’s Science Diet Light Small & Mini Chicken $2.70	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free -- No price on file.	04 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free -- No price on file.
First Five Ingredients	01 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Light Small Bites with Chicken Meal & Barley Chicken Meal, Cracked Pearled Barley, Whole Grain Wheat, Whole Grain Corn, Corn Protein Meal	02 Hill’s Science Diet Light Small & Mini Chicken Chicken, Cracked Pearled Barley, Brown Rice, Pea Fiber, Corn Gluten Meal	03 Raw Beef Meal Bites Grain-Free Beef, Beef Heart, Beef Liver, Beef Lung, Beef Kidney	04 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free lamb, lamb meal, garbanzo beans, chickpea flour, dried plain beet pulp

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.