Four Foods, One Method

• 01 Bil-Jac Large Breed Puppy Swap Remove
• 02 Bil-Jac Picky No More Small Breed Swap Remove
• 03 Castor & Pollux Pristine Wild-Caught Salmon & Oatmeal Swap Remove
• 04 Castor & Pollux Pristine Grain-Free Grass-Fed Beef & Sweet Potato Swap Remove

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

	01 Bil-Jac Large Breed Puppy Swap Remove	02 Bil-Jac Picky No More Small Breed Swap Remove	03 Castor & Pollux Pristine Wild-Caught Salmon & Oatmeal Swap Remove	04 Castor & Pollux Pristine Grain-Free Grass-Fed Beef & Sweet Potato Swap Remove
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Large Breed Puppy 26.7%	02 Picky No More Small Breed 28.9%	03 Pristine Wild-Caught Salmon & Oatmeal 31.5%	04 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. 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 Large Breed Puppy 43% 39.0% as fed	02 Picky No More Small Breed 43% 39.0% as fed	03 Pristine Wild-Caught Salmon & Oatmeal 41% 36.5% as fed	04 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. 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 Large Breed Puppy 2 of 5	02 Picky No More Small Breed 3 of 5	03 Pristine Wild-Caught Salmon & Oatmeal 3 of 5	04 Pristine Grain-Free Grass-Fed Beef & Sweet Potato 3 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Large Breed Puppy 1 BHA	02 Picky No More Small Breed 1 BHA	03 Pristine Wild-Caught Salmon & Oatmeal None Best in this row	04 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 Large Breed Puppy None	02 Picky No More Small Breed None	03 Pristine Wild-Caught Salmon & Oatmeal None	04 Pristine Grain-Free Grass-Fed Beef & Sweet Potato 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 Large Breed Puppy 39.0%	02 Picky No More Small Breed 39.0%	03 Pristine Wild-Caught Salmon & Oatmeal 36.5%	04 Pristine Grain-Free Grass-Fed Beef & Sweet Potato 31.5%
Kcal / Cup	01 Large Breed Puppy 403	02 Picky No More Small Breed 397	03 Pristine Wild-Caught Salmon & Oatmeal 376	04 Pristine Grain-Free Grass-Fed Beef & Sweet Potato 393
First Five Ingredients	01 Large Breed Puppy Chicken, Chicken By-Products (organs only, source of arginine), Corn Meal, Dried Beet Pulp, Oatmeal	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 Pristine Wild-Caught Salmon & Oatmeal Salmon, Whitefish Meal, Organic Oatmeal, Organic Barley, Lamb Meal	04 Pristine Grain-Free Grass-Fed Beef & Sweet Potato Beef, Chicken Meal, Turkey Meal, Organic Sweet Potatoes, Organic Potatoes

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.