alfalfa meal

Legume

Alfalfa meal is dried forage legume — fiber, plant protein, and a green tint from hay country. How Bowlmark treats it.

Also appears on labels as: alfalfa · dehydrated alfalfa meal · sun-cured alfalfa meal · dried alfalfa · lucerne

What it is

Alfalfa meal is dehydrated alfalfa — the forage legume of livestock feed — ground into a meal carrying fiber, some plant protein, and natural chlorophyll green.

Why it's in pet food

It contributes fiber and micronutrients cheaply and colors kibble green without a dye. Its herbivore-feed heritage makes it more filler-adjacent in carnivore diets than in horse feed — position on the label is the tell.

How Bowlmark scores it

Scores are deterministic math over the printed label — the rules below apply to every product identically, and nothing estimates or fills in a blank.

Alfalfa meal carries no flag: no deduction (it is not among the unnamed-source or watched-grain terms), and no bonus. Neutral to the engine — the term lists are versioned, advisor-tuned config.

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Foods that list alfalfa meal

Ranked by score where scores exist. Placement here is never sold.

Sources

Further reading

Cite this page

Bowlmark. "Alfalfa meal in pet food — what it is and how it scores." https://www.bowlmark.com/ingredient/alfalfa-meal

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