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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 Purina>Alpo, 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 Purina>Alpo Purina Alpo Come & Get It! Cookout Classics Swap Remove 02 Purina>Alpo Purina Alpo Prime Cuts Swap Remove + Add A Food + Add A Food
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream. 01 Purina Alpo Come & Get It! Cookout Classics 21.0% Best in this row 02 Purina Alpo Prime Cuts 20.5%
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 Purina Alpo Come & Get It! Cookout Classics 56% 49.0% as fed Best in this row 02 Purina Alpo Prime Cuts 57% 50.0% 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 Purina Alpo Come & Get It! Cookout Classics 2 of 5 02 Purina Alpo Prime Cuts 1 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list. 01 Purina Alpo Come & Get It! Cookout Classics 4 Menadione, Red 40, Blue 2, Yellow 5 02 Purina Alpo Prime Cuts 4 Menadione, Red 40, Blue 2, Yellow 5
05 Brand Recall History Level Manufacturer, not recipe. 01 Purina Alpo Come & Get It! Cookout Classics None 02 Purina Alpo Prime Cuts 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 Purina Alpo Come & Get It! Cookout Classics 49.0% 02 Purina Alpo Prime Cuts 50.0%
Kcal / Cup 01 Purina Alpo Come & Get It! Cookout Classics 377 02 Purina Alpo Prime Cuts 378
First Five Ingredients 01 Purina Alpo Come & Get It! Cookout Classics Ground Yellow Corn, Corn Germ Meal, Beef And Bone Meal, Soybean Meal, Beef Fat Preserved with Mixed-Tocopherols 02 Purina Alpo Prime Cuts Ground Yellow Corn,  Beef And Bone Meal,  Soybean Meal, Animal Fat Preserved with Mixed-Tocopherols, Animal Digest

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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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