Four Foods, One Method

• 01 Science Diet Hill’s Science Diet Adult Small Paws Chicken Meal & Rice Swap Remove
• 02 Purina>Alpo Purina Alpo Prime Cuts Swap Remove
• 03 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Raw Coated Wholesome Grains Chicken Pumpkin & Quinoa Puppy 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 Science Diet Hill’s Science Diet Adult Small Paws Chicken Meal & Rice Swap Remove	02 Purina>Alpo Purina Alpo Prime Cuts Swap Remove	03 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Raw Coated Wholesome Grains Chicken Pumpkin & Quinoa Puppy 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 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Small Paws Chicken Meal & Rice 22.2%	02 Purina Alpo Prime Cuts 20.5%	03 Stella & Chewy’s Raw Coated Wholesome Grains Chicken Pumpkin & Quinoa Puppy 33.0%	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 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Small Paws Chicken Meal & Rice 53% 47.5% as fed	02 Purina Alpo Prime Cuts 57% 50.0% as fed	03 Stella & Chewy’s Raw Coated Wholesome Grains Chicken Pumpkin & Quinoa Puppy 38% 33.0% 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 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Small Paws Chicken Meal & Rice 1 of 5	02 Purina Alpo Prime Cuts 1 of 5	03 Stella & Chewy’s Raw Coated Wholesome Grains Chicken Pumpkin & Quinoa Puppy -- No ingredient list on file.	04 Pristine Grain-Free Grass-Fed Beef & Sweet Potato 3 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Small Paws Chicken Meal & Rice None Best in this row	02 Purina Alpo Prime Cuts 4 Menadione, Red 40, Blue 2, Yellow 5	03 Stella & Chewy’s Raw Coated Wholesome Grains Chicken Pumpkin & Quinoa Puppy -- No ingredient list on file.	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 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Small Paws Chicken Meal & Rice None	02 Purina Alpo Prime Cuts None	03 Stella & Chewy’s Raw Coated Wholesome Grains Chicken Pumpkin & Quinoa Puppy 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 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Small Paws Chicken Meal & Rice 47.5%	02 Purina Alpo Prime Cuts 50.0%	03 Stella & Chewy’s Raw Coated Wholesome Grains Chicken Pumpkin & Quinoa Puppy 33.0%	04 Pristine Grain-Free Grass-Fed Beef & Sweet Potato 31.5%
Kcal / Cup	01 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Small Paws Chicken Meal & Rice 371	02 Purina Alpo Prime Cuts 378	03 Stella & Chewy’s Raw Coated Wholesome Grains Chicken Pumpkin & Quinoa Puppy --	04 Pristine Grain-Free Grass-Fed Beef & Sweet Potato 393
First Five Ingredients	01 Hill’s Science Diet Adult Small Paws Chicken Meal & Rice Chicken Meal, Brewers Rice, Whole Grain Wheat, Soybean Meal, Whole Grain Sorghum	02 Purina Alpo Prime Cuts Ground Yellow Corn,  Beef And Bone Meal,  Soybean Meal, Animal Fat Preserved with Mixed-Tocopherols, Animal Digest	03 Stella & Chewy’s Raw Coated Wholesome Grains Chicken Pumpkin & Quinoa Puppy --	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.