dried whole egg
Dried whole egg is exactly what it says — the entire egg, dried. How it differs from "dried egg product" on a label, and how the engine reads both.
Also appears on labels as: whole dried egg · dried whole eggs · whole egg powder
What it is
Whole egg — white and yolk together — dried to a powder. On labels it overlaps almost completely with "dried egg product"; the practical difference is provenance wording, not nutrition. Either way: complete egg protein plus the yolk's fat and micronutrients.
Why it's in pet food
The same reasons fresh egg is used, minus the water: concentrated complete protein, natural binding, strong palatability. Formulators choose the dried form for stability and for honest list placement — no moisture inflating its rank.
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.
Identical engine treatment across the egg family: matches the named-animal-protein term, earns 15 points only as the first ingredient, is neutral in every other slot, and carries no flags. If a label uses "dried whole egg" and another uses "dried egg product," the score reads them the same — the distinction is disclosure style.
Foods that list dried whole egg
No food on the shelf lists dried whole egg 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. "Dried whole egg in pet food — what it is and how it scores." https://www.bowlmark.com/ingredient/dried-whole-egg
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