The Comparison
Three Foods, One Method
The same five measures, applied to each food from its own figures.
Open Your Saved Comparison- 01 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Raw Coated Wholesome Grains Chicken Pumpkin & Quinoa Puppy Swap Remove
- 02 Pedigree Adult Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor Swap Remove
- 03 Castor & Pollux Pristine Grain-Free Grass-Fed Beef & Sweet Potato Swap Remove
| 01 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Raw Coated Wholesome Grains Chicken Pumpkin & Quinoa Puppy Swap Remove | 02 Pedigree Adult Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor Swap Remove | 03 Castor & Pollux Pristine Grain-Free Grass-Fed Beef & Sweet Potato Swap Remove | + Add A Food | |
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| 01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream. | 01 Stella & Chewy’s Raw Coated Wholesome Grains Chicken Pumpkin & Quinoa Puppy 33.0% | 02 Adult Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor 23.9% | 03 Pristine Grain-Free Grass-Fed Beef & Sweet Potato 36.0% Best in this row | |
| 02 Carbohydrate Load, Dry Matter Lower Is Better Estimated, 6% ash assumed. Estimated, 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 Stella & Chewy’s Raw Coated Wholesome Grains Chicken Pumpkin & Quinoa Puppy 38% 33.0% as fed | 02 Adult Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor 53% 47.0% as fed | 03 Pristine Grain-Free Grass-Fed Beef & Sweet Potato 35% 31.5% as fed Best in this row | |
| 03 Named Proteins In The First Five Count of named animal proteins. The 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 Stella & Chewy’s Raw Coated Wholesome Grains Chicken Pumpkin & Quinoa Puppy -- No ingredient list on file. | 02 Adult Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor 0 of 5 | 03 Pristine Grain-Free Grass-Fed Beef & Sweet Potato 3 of 5 | |
| 04 Flagged Additives Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list. | 01 Stella & Chewy’s Raw Coated Wholesome Grains Chicken Pumpkin & Quinoa Puppy -- No ingredient list on file. | 02 Adult Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor 5 BHA, BHT, Red 40, Blue 2, Yellow 5 | 03 Pristine Grain-Free Grass-Fed Beef & Sweet Potato None Best in this row | |
| 05 Brand Recall History Level Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe. | 01 Stella & Chewy’s Raw Coated Wholesome Grains Chicken Pumpkin & Quinoa Puppy None | 02 Adult Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor None | 03 Pristine Grain-Free Grass-Fed Beef & Sweet Potato None | |
| Starch, As Fed Estimated, 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 Stella & Chewy’s Raw Coated Wholesome Grains Chicken Pumpkin & Quinoa Puppy 33.0% | 02 Adult Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor 47.0% | 03 Pristine Grain-Free Grass-Fed Beef & Sweet Potato 31.5% | |
| Kcal / Cup | 01 Stella & Chewy’s Raw Coated Wholesome Grains Chicken Pumpkin & Quinoa Puppy -- | 02 Adult Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor 325 | 03 Pristine Grain-Free Grass-Fed Beef & Sweet Potato 393 | |
| First Five Ingredients | 01 Stella & Chewy’s Raw Coated Wholesome Grains Chicken Pumpkin & Quinoa Puppy -- | 02 Adult Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor Whole Grain Corn, Meat and Bone Meal, Soybean Meal, Animal Fat (Preserved with BHA and Citric Acid), Whole Grain Wheat | 03 Pristine Grain-Free Grass-Fed Beef & Sweet Potato Beef, Chicken Meal, Turkey Meal, Organic Sweet Potatoes, Organic Potatoes |
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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.
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