NAMED ANIMAL PROTEIN
Pork Heart
The heart muscle of the pig, a muscle meat rather than an organ.
Why It Turns Up In Dog Food
- A natural source of taurine and CoQ10 associated with heart muscle function, plus iron, zinc and thiamine.
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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