Ingredient file // Ingredient
Meat Meal
A rendered product made from mammal tissue, without the species being named.
Our read // In our catalog
In 1 of every 1262 foods we track
Share of foods that list it
0%
2 of the 2,523 foods with an ingredient list on file, from 1 brand. All dry dog food.
Each square is 1% of the catalog
Where it sits on the label
Median position 4. In the top five of 1 food, so it is usually a main ingredient.
Above the salt
Almost always listed before the salt, so there is more of it than a pinch.
Price per lb
Median of the cheapest bag price across 1 priced foods, 73% below the catalog. The price is the food's, not the ingredient's.
Who leans on it
100%
of the foods that list it are from Diamond. 1 brand use it in total.
What it is
Why it turns up in dog food
- A concentrated animal protein. The generic name means neither the species nor the tissue is specified, which is less transparent than a named meal.
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 By-Product Meal 100%
- Whole Grain Ground Corn 100%
- Wheat Flour 100%
- Chicken Fat 100%
- Dried Yeast 100%
- Dried Plain Beet Pulp 100%
- Natural Flavor 100%
- Salt 100%
- Rice Bran 50%
- Potassium Chloride 50%
On the shelf
Foods that list it
2 foods in our reviews list it. Here are some of them.