blood meal
Blood meal is rendered, dried blood — extremely protein-dense, species unnamed. How Bowlmark treats it today.
What it is
Blood meal is blood collected at slaughter and dried into one of the most protein-concentrated ingredients in existence — roughly 90% protein — with substantial heme iron. It appears in small amounts, mostly in livestock feed and some budget pet formulas.
Why it's in pet food
A little raises protein numbers a lot, cheaply. Digestibility and amino-acid balance are middling, and the species is unnamed — it is a numbers ingredient more than a nutrition strategy.
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.
Blood meal carries no flag today: it is not among the unnamed-source deduction terms, earns no named-protein bonus (no species), and no other rule touches it. The term lists are versioned, advisor-tuned config — this page changes with the rules, never ahead of them.
Foods that list blood meal
No food on the shelf lists blood meal yet. Scan a bag that does and its label joins the catalog — versioned from the day it arrives.
Sources
Related ingredients
Further reading
Cite this page
Bowlmark. "Blood meal in pet food — what it is and how it scores." https://www.bowlmark.com/ingredient/blood-meal
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- Last verified August 9, 2026
No stored score to stamp yet — the engine and config above are the ones a scan runs today.