Ingredient file // Ingredient
Corn Meal
Corn kernels milled to a coarse flour.
Our read // In our catalog
In 1 of every 88 foods we track
Share of foods that list it
1%
28 of the 2,473 foods with an ingredient list on file, from 3 brands. 25 dry dog food, 3 wet dog food.
Each square is 1% of the catalog
Where it sits on the label
Median position 3. In the top five of 27 foods, 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 21 priced foods, 33% below the catalog. The price is the food's, not the ingredient's.
Who leans on it
75%
of the foods that list it are from Bil-Jac. 3 brands use it in total.
What it is
Why it turns up in dog food
- Digestible energy and linoleic acid, ground fine enough to be easy on the gut.
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 100%
- Dried Beet Pulp 89%
- Chicken By-Product 79%
- Oatmeal 75%
- Brewers Dried Yeast 75%
- Chicken By-Product Meal 71%
- Choline Chloride 54%
- Flaxseed 39%
- Menhaden Fish Meal 36%
- Salt 32%
- Monocalcium Phosphate 21%
- Brewers Rice 21%
On the shelf
Foods that list it
28 foods in our reviews list it. Here are some of them.