NAMED ANIMAL PROTEIN
Beef Bone
Also printed as “Ground Beef Bone” on some labels. Same ingredient.
Beef bone, included ground in raw-inspired and whole-prey style recipes.
Why It Turns Up In Dog Food
- The natural source of calcium and phosphorus in a whole-prey diet, supplied in the ratio dogs evolved to eat.
Other Names For This
Manufacturers do not all use the same wording. These all mean the same thing.
An ingredient on its own tells you very little.
What matters is how much of it there is and where it sits in the list. That is why we weigh
the top five rather than reacting to any single name further down.
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