INGREDIENT
Cassava Root Flour
Also printed as “Organic Cassava Root Flour” on some labels. Same ingredient.
Flour milled from the cassava root, used as a grain-free carbohydrate and binder.
Why It Turns Up In Dog Food
- Very digestible and unlikely to trigger a reaction, useful in limited-ingredient recipes. Provides starch energy.
Other Names For This
Manufacturers do not all use the same wording. These all mean the same thing.
Foods That List It
A few of the recipes in the archive with this on the label.
Purina Beneful Grain-Free Farm-Raised Chicken Dry Dog Food
27.3% protein
Purina Beyond Organic Chicken, Egg & Sweet Potato Recipe Natural Dry Dog Food
29.5% protein
Purina Beyond Organic Small Dog Chicken, Egg & Carrot Recipe Natural Dry Dog Food
30.7% protein
Purina Beyond Simply Grain-Free White Meat Chicken & Egg Recipe Dry Dog Food
30.7% protein
Purina One True Instinct Grain-Free Formula with Real Beef Dry Dog Food
34.1% protein
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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