Ingredient file // Ingredient
Cassava Root Flour
Flour milled from the cassava root, used as a grain-free carbohydrate and binder.
Our read // In our catalog
In 1 of every 505 foods we track
Share of foods that list it
0%
5 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 3. In the top five of 4 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.
Who leans on it
100%
of the foods that list it are from Purina. 1 brand use it in total.
What it is
Why it turns up in dog food
- Very digestible and unlikely to trigger a reaction, useful in limited-ingredient recipes. Provides starch energy.
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 100%
- Pea Starch 100%
- Chicken 80%
- Pea Protein 80%
- Canola Meal 60%
- Beef Fat 60%
- Dried Beet Pulp 60%
- Dried Egg Product 40%
- Carrots 20%
- Sweet Potatoes 20%
- Beef 20%
- Whole Barley 20%
On the shelf
Foods that list it
5 foods in our reviews list it. Here are some of them.
On labels as
Other names for this
Manufacturers do not all use the same wording. These all mean the same thing.