cabbage
Cabbage is cheap fiber with a gas warning label. Fine cooked and occasional; the thyroid-interference story needs quantities no bowl should see.
Also appears on labels as: dried cabbage
What it is
Cabbage, fresh or dried. A cruciferous leaf: water, fiber, and the fermentable compounds responsible for its legendary flatulence. Its goitrogens — compounds that can interfere with thyroid iodine uptake — matter at chronic, large, raw doses, not at the shredded-spoonful scale.
Why it's in pet food
Inexpensive vegetable matter and label greenery. It appears low on lists, often steamed into wet recipes where its fiber does quiet work.
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: not on the whole-foods bonus roster, no deduction, no flag. The engine has nothing to say about cabbage, and honestly neither does much of nutrition science at recipe doses — the practical caution is digestive (start small, cooked) rather than toxicological.
For dogs
Cooked and modest, cabbage is fine; raw and generous is how you discover the flatulence literature firsthand.
Foods that list cabbage
No food on the shelf lists cabbage 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. "Cabbage in pet food — what it is and how it scores." https://www.bowlmark.com/ingredient/cabbage
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