dried potatoes
Dried potatoes are the dehydrated form of kibble's grain-free workhorse — same cooked starch, less water weight, honest list placement.
Also appears on labels as: dried potato · dehydrated potatoes · potatoes (dried) · potato flakes
What it is
Potatoes cooked and dehydrated — flakes, granules, or pieces. Nutritionally identical to the fresh tuber minus the water: digestible starch, modest potassium, none of the solanine story (processing uses peeled, sound potatoes).
Why it's in pet food
The dried form ranks honestly on the list — no water inflating its position — and stores well. Formulators use it interchangeably with fresh potato for binding and energy; the label word is the main difference.
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.
Same engine treatment as the fresh form: potato-worded entries count toward the splitting base (three or more in the top 8 take the single −12), there's no bonus seat, no first-ingredient deduction, and no flag. Fresh versus dried is a water-weight disclosure difference; the engine reads the potato either way.
Foods that list dried potatoes
Ranked by score where scores exist. Placement here is never sold.
Sources
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Further reading
Cite this page
Bowlmark. "Dried potatoes in pet food — what it is and how it scores." https://www.bowlmark.com/ingredient/dried-potatoes
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