Four Foods, One Method

• 01 Bil-Jac Picky No More Large Breed Swap Remove
• 02 Bil-Jac Picky No More Small Breed Swap Remove
• 03 Science Diet Hill’s Science Diet Adult 1-6 Small Bites Chicken & Barley Swap Remove
• 04 Science Diet Hill’s Science Diet Adult 7+ Senior Vitality Chicken & Rice Swap Remove

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

	01 Bil-Jac Picky No More Large Breed Swap Remove	02 Bil-Jac Picky No More Small Breed Swap Remove	03 Science Diet Hill’s Science Diet Adult 1-6 Small Bites Chicken & Barley Swap Remove	04 Science Diet Hill’s Science Diet Adult 7+ Senior Vitality Chicken & Rice Swap Remove
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Picky No More Large Breed 25.6%	02 Picky No More Small Breed 28.9% Best in this row	03 Hill’s Science Diet Adult 1-6 Small Bites Chicken & Barley 22.2%	04 Hill’s Science Diet Adult 7+ Senior Vitality Chicken & Rice 21.1%
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 Picky No More Large Breed 46% 41.0% as fed	02 Picky No More Small Breed 43% 39.0% as fed Best in this row	03 Hill’s Science Diet Adult 1-6 Small Bites Chicken & Barley 54% 48.5% as fed	04 Hill’s Science Diet Adult 7+ Senior Vitality Chicken & Rice 57% 51.0% 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 Picky No More Large Breed 3 of 5	02 Picky No More Small Breed 3 of 5	03 Hill’s Science Diet Adult 1-6 Small Bites Chicken & Barley 1 of 5	04 Hill’s Science Diet Adult 7+ Senior Vitality Chicken & Rice 1 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Picky No More Large Breed 1 BHA	02 Picky No More Small Breed 1 BHA	03 Hill’s Science Diet Adult 1-6 Small Bites Chicken & Barley None Best in this row	04 Hill’s Science Diet Adult 7+ Senior Vitality Chicken & Rice None Best in this row
05 Brand Recall History Level Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Picky No More Large Breed None	02 Picky No More Small Breed None	03 Hill’s Science Diet Adult 1-6 Small Bites Chicken & Barley None	04 Hill’s Science Diet Adult 7+ Senior Vitality Chicken & Rice None
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 Picky No More Large Breed 41.0%	02 Picky No More Small Breed 39.0%	03 Hill’s Science Diet Adult 1-6 Small Bites Chicken & Barley 48.5%	04 Hill’s Science Diet Adult 7+ Senior Vitality Chicken & Rice 51.0%
Kcal / Cup	01 Picky No More Large Breed 394	02 Picky No More Small Breed 397	03 Hill’s Science Diet Adult 1-6 Small Bites Chicken & Barley 363	04 Hill’s Science Diet Adult 7+ Senior Vitality Chicken & Rice 363
First Five Ingredients	01 Picky No More Large Breed Chicken, Chicken By-Products (source of leucine and arginine), Corn Meal, Dried Beet Pulp, Chicken Liver	02 Picky No More Small Breed Chicken, Chicken By-Products (source of leucine and arginine), Corn Meal, Chicken By-Product Meal, Dried Beet Pulp	03 Hill’s Science Diet Adult 1-6 Small Bites Chicken & Barley Chicken, Cracked Pearled Barley, Whole Grain Wheat, Whole Grain Corn, Whole Grain Sorghum	04 Hill’s Science Diet Adult 7+ Senior Vitality Chicken & Rice Chicken, Brewers Rice, Yellow Peas, Cracked Pearled Barley, Whole Grain Oats

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.