dried sweet potatoes

What it is

Sweet potato dehydrated for recipes or sliced and dried as chews: the water leaves, the starch, fiber, and beta-carotene concentrate. A single-ingredient label in its best form — one word, one plant, nothing to decode.

Why it's in pet food

In kibble, honest list placement and grain-free starch; in the treat aisle, a chewy texture dogs work at slowly. Its calorie density is the practical note — dried anything is more food per gram than its fresh original.

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.

All dried and dehydrated sweet-potato phrasings match the same "sweet potato" bonus term: +2 inside the top 12, once per label, under the 8-point cap. No deductions, no flags. As with dried cranberries and fresh, the roster counts the term, not the form — drying changes the calories, not the points.

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Foods that list dried sweet potatoes

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

• Blue Buffalo Life Protection Formula Adult Dry Dog Food - Chicken & Brown Rice91
• Blue Buffalo Life Protection Formula Puppy Chicken and Brown Rice Recipe87
• Blue Buffalo Wilderness Adult Dog Grain-Free Chicken Recipe87

Sources

• WSAVA Global Nutrition Committee — Selecting a pet food
• MSD Veterinary Manual — dietary management of GI disease

Related ingredients

• cassava root flour
• dried potatoes
• jerusalem artichoke
• potato fiber
• potato flour
• tapioca starch

Further reading

• Grain-free, legumes and the DCM question
• How to read a pet food label