collard greens

Fruit & vegetable

Collard greens are sturdy Southern leaves that translate fine to the bowl — cooked, chopped, occasional. A leafy green without spinach's oxalate baggage.

Also appears on labels as: whole collard greens · dried collard greens

What it is

Collard leaves, cooked or dried. A robust brassica green: fiber, calcium, carotenoids — and notably LOW in oxalates for a dark leafy green, which distinguishes them from spinach in kidney-and-bladder conversations.

Why it's in pet food

Green-vegetable content in recipes chasing a whole-food read. They hold up to cooking, which is also how they should reach a pet: raw collards are chewy, bitter, and gas-prone.

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 a whole-foods bonus term (spinach and kale hold the leafy-green seats), no deduction, no flag. The low-oxalate distinction is context the roster can't see — a label swapping spinach for collards trades 2 bonus points for a gentler oxalate profile, and only one of those shows in the score.

For dogs

Cooked, chopped, plain, occasional — a fine green. For dogs with oxalate-stone history, collards are among the more sensible leaf choices; your vet owns that diet plan.

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Bowlmark. "Collard greens in pet food — what it is and how it scores." https://www.bowlmark.com/ingredient/collard-greens

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