calcium iodate

What it is

An iodine salt chosen chiefly for stability: iodide forms can slowly lose iodine in storage, and iodate holds its dose over a bag's shelf life. The calcium is incidental at these doses.

Why it's in pet food

Delivering the thyroid's trace element at label-guaranteed levels through months of storage. Formulation chemistry at its least glamorous and most necessary.

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. Which iodine salt a recipe uses is a stability decision; that iodine is supplied at all is the nutritional fact. Everything on the potassium iodide page — micrograms, thyroid, measured-beats-variable — applies here unchanged.

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Foods that list calcium iodate

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

• Kettle Creek Farmhouse Chicken & Sweet Potato94
• Whisker & Pine Free-Run Chicken & Sweet Potato Recipe94
• Copperfield Cats Kitten Heritage Chicken & Oat Recipe93
• Meadow Farms Chicken & Oatmeal Puppy93
• Open Farm Harvest Chicken & Ancient Grains Recipe93
• Open Farm Large Breed Grain-Free RawMix93
• Open Farm Large Breed RawMix with Ancient Grains93
• Open Farm Small Breed Chicken & Turkey Recipe93

Sources

• NRC Nutrient Requirements of Dogs and Cats (2006)
• AAFCO Dog & Cat Food Nutrient Profiles (2016)

Related ingredients

• calcium carbonate
• copper proteinate
• copper sulfate
• dicalcium phosphate
• zinc proteinate
• zinc sulfate

Further reading

• The guaranteed analysis, decoded
• How to read a pet food label