Four Foods, One Method

• 01 Bil-Jac Sensitive Solutions Swap Remove
• 02 Bil-Jac Picky No More Large Breed Swap Remove
• 03 Science Diet Hill’s Science Diet Adult Large Breed Light with Chicken Meal & Barley Swap Remove
• 04 Science Diet Hill’s Science Diet Adult Small Paws Chicken Meal & Rice Swap Remove

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

	01 Bil-Jac Sensitive Solutions Swap Remove	02 Bil-Jac Picky No More Large Breed Swap Remove	03 Science Diet Hill’s Science Diet Adult Large Breed Light with Chicken Meal & Barley Swap Remove	04 Science Diet Hill’s Science Diet Adult Small Paws Chicken Meal & Rice Swap Remove
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Sensitive Solutions 28.9% Best in this row	02 Picky No More Large Breed 25.6%	03 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Large Breed Light with Chicken Meal & Barley 22.3%	04 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Small Paws Chicken Meal & Rice 22.2%
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 Sensitive Solutions 41% 37.0% as fed Best in this row	02 Picky No More Large Breed 46% 41.0% as fed	03 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Large Breed Light with Chicken Meal & Barley 49% 44.0% as fed	04 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Small Paws Chicken Meal & Rice 53% 47.5% 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 Sensitive Solutions 3 of 5	02 Picky No More Large Breed 3 of 5	03 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Large Breed Light with Chicken Meal & Barley 1 of 5	04 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Small Paws Chicken Meal & Rice 1 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Sensitive Solutions 1 BHA	02 Picky No More Large Breed 1 BHA	03 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Large Breed Light with Chicken Meal & Barley None Best in this row	04 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Small Paws Chicken Meal & Rice None Best in this row
05 Brand Recall History Level Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Sensitive Solutions None	02 Picky No More Large Breed None	03 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Large Breed Light with Chicken Meal & Barley None	04 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Small Paws Chicken Meal & 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 Sensitive Solutions 37.0%	02 Picky No More Large Breed 41.0%	03 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Large Breed Light with Chicken Meal & Barley 44.0%	04 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Small Paws Chicken Meal & Rice 47.5%
Kcal / Cup	01 Sensitive Solutions 403	02 Picky No More Large Breed 394	03 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Large Breed Light with Chicken Meal & Barley 271	04 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Small Paws Chicken Meal & Rice 371
First Five Ingredients	01 Sensitive Solutions Chicken, Chicken By-Products (organs only, source of arginine), Corn Meal, Chicken By-Product Meal, Dried Beet Pulp	02 Picky No More Large Breed Chicken, Chicken By-Products (source of leucine and arginine), Corn Meal, Dried Beet Pulp, Chicken Liver	03 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Large Breed Light with Chicken Meal & Barley Chicken Meal, Cracked Pearled Barley, Pea Fiber, Whole Grain Wheat, Whole Grain Corn	04 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Small Paws Chicken Meal & Rice Chicken Meal, Brewers Rice, Whole Grain Wheat, Soybean Meal, Whole Grain Sorghum

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.