corn bran
Corn bran is the kernel's fiber jacket — insoluble bulk doing cellulose-tier work, and a third corn word toward the splitting tally.
Also appears on labels as: maize bran
What it is
The outer fiber layer of the corn kernel: mostly insoluble, lightly fermentable, doing stool-structure work in the beet-pulp-and-cellulose tradition without either's press.
Why it's in pet food
Economical fiber, often from the same milling stream as the recipe's other corn fractions — which is exactly when the splitting rule starts counting.
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.
Corn-worded: splitting-base membership and the first-ingredient deduction both apply in principle, though bran leads no realistic label. Its practical reading is as the third word: corn + corn gluten meal + corn bran in a top 8 completes the ≥3 pattern for the single −12 — one kernel, three list positions, priced as the disclosure choice it is.
Foods that list corn bran
No food on the shelf lists corn bran yet. Scan a bag that does and its label joins the catalog — versioned from the day it arrives.
Sources
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Further reading
Cite this page
Bowlmark. "Corn bran in pet food — what it is and how it scores." https://www.bowlmark.com/ingredient/corn-bran
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