dried buttermilk
Dried buttermilk is the tangy byproduct of butter-making, dried for flavor. A traditional treat-bakery ingredient with the standard dairy caveats.
Also appears on labels as: buttermilk · buttermilk powder · sweet cream buttermilk
What it is
The liquid left after churning butter — mildly acidic, lightly cultured in flavor — dried to a powder. An AAFCO-recognized dairy ingredient. Nutritionally it sits near skim milk powder: milk protein and lactose, little fat.
Why it's in pet food
Flavor, mostly: the tang reads as "baked" and "savory" in biscuits and soft treats. It's a byproduct being put to honest use — the naming is specific, the sourcing well understood, nothing hidden behind a collective term.
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.
No engine flag in any position — buttermilk neither scores nor penalizes. It is a NAMED dairy ingredient, so the unnamed-source deduction (which targets terms like "animal fat" or "meat meal") has nothing to object to here. Dose and tolerance remain the practical questions.
Foods that list dried buttermilk
No food on the shelf lists dried buttermilk yet. Scan a bag that does and its label joins the catalog — versioned from the day it arrives.
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Further reading
Cite this page
Bowlmark. "Dried buttermilk in pet food — what it is and how it scores." https://www.bowlmark.com/ingredient/dried-buttermilk
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