duck fat

What it is

Duck fat is rendered fat from duck, appearing mostly in duck-first and novel-protein recipes to keep the formula single-species. Nutritionally it is a poultry fat: energy-dense, palatable, with useful linoleic acid.

Why it's in pet food

Recipes built around one protein often want their fat to match, and duck fat lets a duck recipe stay all-duck. The name is the point: you know the species, unlike "poultry fat".

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.

Duck fat moves no score: fats are excluded from the named-protein bonus by design, and the unnamed-source deductions cover "animal fat" and "poultry fat", not named fats. The engine treats a named fat as neutral — the transparency is its own reward.

Read the full methodology

Foods that list duck fat

No food on the shelf lists duck fat yet. Scan a bag that does and its label joins the catalog — versioned from the day it arrives.

Sources

• WSAVA Global Nutrition Committee — Selecting a pet food

Related ingredients

• chicken fat
• coconut oil
• corn oil
• fish oil
• flaxseed
• flaxseed oil

Further reading

• Calories on the label: kcal, ME and fair comparisons
• Storing pet food so it stays the food you bought