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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 Limited Ingredient Diet Grain-Free Lamb & Sweet Potato Formula Swap Remove 02 AvoDerm Advanced Sensitive Support Grain-Free Duck Formula Swap Remove + Add A Food + Add A Food
01 Protein, Dry Matter Level Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream. 01 Limited Ingredient Diet Grain-Free Lamb & Sweet Potato Formula 28.9% 02 Advanced Sensitive Support Grain-Free Duck Formula 28.9%
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 Limited Ingredient Diet Grain-Free Lamb & Sweet Potato Formula 42% 38.0% as fed 02 Advanced Sensitive Support Grain-Free Duck Formula 38% 34.5% 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 Limited Ingredient Diet Grain-Free Lamb & Sweet Potato Formula 2 of 5 02 Advanced Sensitive Support Grain-Free Duck Formula 2 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list. 01 Limited Ingredient Diet Grain-Free Lamb & Sweet Potato Formula None 02 Advanced Sensitive Support Grain-Free Duck Formula None
05 Brand Recall History Level Manufacturer, not recipe. 01 Limited Ingredient Diet Grain-Free Lamb & Sweet Potato Formula None 02 Advanced Sensitive Support Grain-Free Duck 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 Limited Ingredient Diet Grain-Free Lamb & Sweet Potato Formula 38.0% 02 Advanced Sensitive Support Grain-Free Duck Formula 34.5%
Kcal / Cup 01 Limited Ingredient Diet Grain-Free Lamb & Sweet Potato Formula 420 02 Advanced Sensitive Support Grain-Free Duck Formula 446
First Five Ingredients 01 Limited Ingredient Diet Grain-Free Lamb & Sweet Potato Formula Lamb, Lamb Meal, Peas, Garbanzo Beans, Pea Flour 02 Advanced Sensitive Support Grain-Free Duck Formula Duck, Duck Meal, Garbanzo Beans, Peas, Pea Flour

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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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