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Two Foods, One Method

The same five measures, applied to each food from its own figures.

Every food here is made by AvoDerm, so the recall row cannot separate them.

Two Foods, One Method. Each row is one measure; the best figure in a row is marked.
01 AvoDerm Grain-Free Beef & Vegetables Swap Remove 02 AvoDerm Advanced Joint Health Grain-Free Chicken Meal Formula Swap Remove + Add A Food + Add A Food
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream. 01 Grain-Free Beef & Vegetables 27.8% 02 Advanced Joint Health Grain-Free Chicken Meal Formula 33.3% 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 Grain-Free Beef & Vegetables 30% 27.0% as fed Best in this row 02 Advanced Joint Health Grain-Free Chicken Meal Formula 40% 36.0% as fed
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 Grain-Free Beef & Vegetables 2 of 5 02 Advanced Joint Health Grain-Free Chicken Meal Formula 2 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list. 01 Grain-Free Beef & Vegetables None 02 Advanced Joint Health Grain-Free Chicken Meal Formula None
05 Brand Recall History Level Manufacturer, not recipe. 01 Grain-Free Beef & Vegetables None 02 Advanced Joint Health Grain-Free Chicken Meal Formula 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 Grain-Free Beef & Vegetables 27.0% 02 Advanced Joint Health Grain-Free Chicken Meal Formula 36.0%
Kcal / Cup 01 Grain-Free Beef & Vegetables 352 02 Advanced Joint Health Grain-Free Chicken Meal Formula 368
First Five Ingredients 01 Grain-Free Beef & Vegetables Beef, Beef Meal, Peas, Pea Flour, Potatoes 02 Advanced Joint Health Grain-Free Chicken Meal Formula Chicken Meal, Peas, Chicken Cartilage (Source of Chondroitin Sulfate and Glucosamine), Pea Flour, Garbanzo Beans

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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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