The scores
Ollie Baked Chicken Dish with Carrots: A (90/100) — Dry-kibble rubric. Chicken, oats, chickpeas, pea flour, chicken livers, whole dried eggs, carrots, sweet potatoes. Shelf-stable.
Ollie Fresh Beef Recipe with Sweet Potato: A (90/100) — Fresh Food Rubric v1.0. Beef, carrots, beef kidneys, potatoes, peas, sweet potatoes, beef livers, chickpeas, spinach. Requires refrigeration/freezer storage.
The same-score-on-different-rubrics is important: both products clear their respective A-tier ceilings, but the dry and fresh rubrics measure different things. A/90-fresh represents a cooked-fresh product that’s at the top of that category; A/90-dry represents a dry kibble that’s at the top of the dry category. You can’t directly conclude that they’re nutritionally equivalent — cross-format comparison is methodology v2 work.
How the ingredients compare
Ollie Baked (Chicken): Chicken, oats, chickpeas, pea flour, chicken livers, whole dried eggs, carrots, sweet potatoes. Shelf-stable at room temperature, baked at lower temperatures than conventional extrusion, rosemary extract natural preservation.
Ollie Fresh (Beef): Beef, carrots, beef kidneys, potatoes, peas, sweet potatoes, beef livers, chickpeas, spinach. Flash-frozen after low-temperature cooking, no chemical preservatives needed because of cold chain.
Different proteins (chicken on Baked, beef on Fresh) plus format differences. Baked includes whole eggs as a complete-protein supplement; Fresh includes dual organ meats (kidneys and liver). Both carry legume matter — Baked has chickpeas plus pea flour; Fresh has peas plus chickpeas. Both use sweet potatoes plus a secondary starch.
Where Ollie Baked pulls ahead
Pantry-stable format: Baked kibble lives in the pantry at room temperature. No refrigerator or freezer space, no thaw planning, no cold-chain shipping anxiety. For RV-living, frequent-traveling, or small-freezer households, this is a material practical advantage.
Lower cost per pound: Baked runs meaningfully less expensive than the cooked-fresh subscription — roughly 40–60% lower cost per calorie. For multi-dog households or large-breed dogs where cooked-fresh subscription costs would be prohibitive, Baked is the accessible Ollie-quality option.
Whole egg inclusion: Whole dried eggs at position six provide complete protein and bioavailable choline. The Fresh lineup doesn’t use eggs as a mid-panel ingredient, instead layering two muscle plus two organ beef components. Shop on Amazon →
Where Ollie Fresh holds its own
Dual organ stack: Beef kidneys plus beef livers gives Fresh two distinct organ meats in the top seven. Kidney contributes selenium and B-vitamins; liver adds vitamin A, B12, iron, and copper in bioavailable animal forms. Baked includes chicken liver alone at position five — one organ vs. Fresh’s two.
Moisture content: Cooked-fresh products naturally carry 60–70% moisture as fed, closer to what dogs would consume in a whole-prey diet. This supports hydration, particularly for dogs that don’t drink enough water. Baked kibble runs 8–10% moisture, requiring separate water intake.
Minimal processing: Low-temperature cooking plus flash-freezing preserves more heat-sensitive nutrients than baking at any temperature. The processing gap between cooked-fresh and baked kibble is smaller than the gap between baked and extruded kibble, but it’s still real. Shop on Amazon →
The bottom line
Both earn A/90 on their respective rubrics — strong picks within their categories. For pantry convenience, multi-dog affordability, or travel-heavy households, Ollie Baked is the pragmatic Ollie-quality choice. For moisture-rich cooked-fresh nutrition with dual organ-meat inclusion, Ollie Fresh is the subscription-tier option. Cross-format comparison is genuinely complex and methodology v2 will address it more precisely — for now, match the format to your household situation rather than trying to declare one nutritionally superior to the other.