black beans

What it is

Dried black turtle beans: the pinto profile (protein, slow starch, fermentable fiber) under an anthocyanin-pigmented coat. The pigments are antioxidants in a test tube and a color on a label.

Why it's in pet food

Grain-free carbohydrate and protein-stretching, with 'superfood bean' aesthetics in some recipes. Everything on the pinto page applies — including the flatulence footnote.

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.

Neutral, and off the legume flag's roster like all beans (the informational flag names pea, lentil, chickpea, garbanzo). Reading advice for the legume aisle as a whole: count the legume ENTRIES in the top 5 yourself — the pattern the FDA inquiry described was legume-RICH, and several bean-and-pea wordings up top is the same pattern whether or not each one is on the flag's list.

Read the full methodology

Foods that list black beans

No food on the shelf lists black beans yet. Scan a bag that does and its label joins the catalog — versioned from the day it arrives.

Sources

• FDA investigation: potential link between diet and canine DCM (2019 update)
• WSAVA Global Nutrition Committee — Selecting a pet food

Related ingredients

• alfalfa meal
• carob
• chickpea flour
• chickpeas
• soybean meal
• soybeans

Further reading

• Grain-free, legumes and the DCM question
• How to read a pet food label