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Ingredient file // Named animal protein

Duck by-Product Meal

A concentrated meal rendered from the parts of the duck left after the flesh is removed.

Duck by-Product Meal

Our read // In our catalog

In 1 of every 3,204 foods we track

Share of foods that list it

<1%

1 of the 3,204 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 2. In the top five of 1 food, so it is usually a main ingredient.

Top five List position, heaviest first

Above the salt

100%

Almost always listed before the salt, so there is more of it than a pinch.

Price per lb

Foods with it $6.24
All foods $3.25

Median of the cheapest bag price across 1 priced foods, 92% above the catalog. The price is the food's, not the ingredient's.

Who leans on it

100%

of the foods that list it are from Royal Canin. 1 brand use it in total.

What it is

Why it turns up in dog food

  • A concentrated protein made from duck organ tissue, so it carries vitamin A, iron and B vitamins, from a less common poultry species.

Who uses it

Brands, best sellers and the company it keeps

Top brands, by foods that list it

  1. Royal Canin 1 / 160

Foods that list it / all the brand's recipes we track.

Usually listed with, share of the foods that list it

  1. Potatoes 100%
  2. Coconut Oil 100%
  3. Potato Protein 100%
  4. Hydrolyzed Soy Protein 100%
  5. Natural Flavor 100%
  6. Vegetable Oil 100%
  7. Fish Oil 100%
  8. Monocalcium Phosphate 100%
  9. Choline Chloride 100%

On the shelf

Foods that list Duck by-Product Meal

1 food in our catalog lists it, highest on the label first.

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. Back to the wiki

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