Ingredient file
Sun-Cured Alfalfa Meal
Printed as “Suncured Alfalfa Meal” on some labels. Same ingredient.
Sun-cured alfalfa ground into a meal.
Our read // In our catalog
In 1 of every 236 foods we track
Share of foods that list it
0%
11 of the 2,595 foods with an ingredient list on file, from 4 brands. All dry dog food.
Each square is 1% of the catalog
Where it sits on the label
Median position 9. In the top five of 0 foods, so it is usually a supporting ingredient.
Above the salt
Listed before the salt in 83% of foods. In the rest it is under about 1% of the recipe.
Price per lb
Median of the cheapest bag price across 9 priced foods, 33% below the catalog. The price is the food's, not the ingredient's.
Who leans on it
64%
of the foods that list it are from Canidae. 4 brands use it in total.
What it is
Why it turns up in dog food
- A concentrated source of fiber, vitamin K and plant pigments, with nutrients preserved by sun curing.
Who uses it
Brands, best sellers and the company it keeps
Top brands, by foods that list it
Usually listed with, share of the foods that list it
- Chicken Meal 73%
- Chicken Fat 64%
- Peas 55%
- Garbanzo Beans 55%
- Turkey Meal 55%
- Chicken 45%
- Flaxseed 45%
- Potatoes 36%
- Sweet Potatoes 36%
- Menhaden Fish Meal 36%
- Lentils 27%
- Lamb Meal 27%
On labels as
Other names for this
Manufacturers do not all use the same wording. These all mean the same thing.