Pork
Also appears on labels as: pork meal, spray dried pork liver, pork protein isolate, bacon, real bacon (food-grade flavor), pork lung
Meat and organs from pigs, plus the rendered and spray-dried forms used in treats.
Watched ingredients get highlighted on every product panel you open. Watching this one also flags pork by-products, and spray dried porcine plasma, which come from the same source.
- Where it comes from
- Pork processing plants.
- Why it's in the product
- Protein and palatability. Pork is genuinely less common in pet food, so it works as a rotation protein.
- Safety and toxicity
- No safety concern in commercial food.
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Found in 51 scored products
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27 more scored products list this ingredient. Showing the 24 lowest-scoring.