dried bacillus coagulans fermentation product

What it is

A dried fermentation of Bacillus coagulans, a spore-forming organism. The spore is the selling point: it shrugs off extrusion temperatures and gastric acid that slaughter ordinary lactobacilli, making it one of the few probiotics with a plausible story for surviving inside a cooked kibble at all.

Why it's in pet food

Digestive-support claims with a manufacturing-realism edge — if any organism on this shelf reaches the gut alive from a dry food, it's a spore-former. Delivery plausibility still isn't efficacy; strain-specific evidence in pets remains thinner than for E. faecium.

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.

On the recognized-organism roster, so the +4 applies when — and only when — the label states a CFU guarantee. The rule's logic suits this organism especially well: a spore-former WITH a viable count is the most credible probiotic claim a dry food can make; without the count, it's the same decoration as everything else.

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Foods that list dried bacillus coagulans fermentation product

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

• Purina Pro Plan Vital Systems Chicken & Egg Formula90
• Stella & Chewy's Chewy's Chicken Freeze-Dried Raw Dinner Patties90
• Stella & Chewy's Purely Pork Freeze-Dried Raw Dinner Patties90
• Stella & Chewy's Remarkable Red Meat Freeze-Dried Raw Dinner Patties90
• ORIJEN Amazing Grains, Original88
• ORIJEN Amazing Grains, Six Fish88
• ORIJEN Fit & Trim88
• ORIJEN Kitten Formula88

Sources

• ACVN — probiotics in commercial diets
• WSAVA Global Nutrition Committee — Selecting a pet food

Related ingredients

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Further reading

• The marketing dictionary: which label words mean anything
• The guaranteed analysis, decoded