Turkey
Also appears on labels as: deboned turkey, turkey meal, usda turkey, dehydrated turkey, freeze-dried turkey, humanely raised turkey
Clean flesh and skin from turkeys. Turkey meal is the same thing rendered and dried into a concentrate.
Watched ingredients get highlighted on every product panel you open. Watching this one also flags poultry (species not named), which come from the same source.
- Where it comes from
- Poultry processing plants.
- Why it's in the product
- Primary protein. Slightly leaner than chicken, and commonly used as a novel-ish protein in limited-ingredient diets.
- Safety and toxicity
- No safety concern in commercial food.
- Interactions and who should be careful
- Turkey is close enough to chicken that a pet with a poultry allergy often reacts to both. It is not a true novel protein.
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Found in 98 scored products
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