kidney beans
Kidney beans are protein-and-fiber legumes that must be — and are — cooked in processing. How Bowlmark treats them.
Also appears on labels as: kidney bean · red kidney beans
What it is
Kidney beans are large red legume seeds with solid plant protein and fiber. Raw kidney beans contain a lectin (phytohaemagglutinin) that proper cooking destroys — commercial pet food processing cooks them thoroughly as a matter of course.
Why it's in pet food
They appear in fresh-style and mixed-legume recipes doing standard legume work: protein numbers, fiber, and bulk. The raw-bean caution belongs to home kitchens, not to processed food.
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.
Kidney beans carry no flag today: not a splitting base, not on the legume-rich grain-free flag's term list, no deduction, no bonus. The term lists are versioned, advisor-tuned config — stated as they stand.
Foods that list kidney beans
No food on the shelf lists kidney beans 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. "Kidney beans in pet food — what it is and how it scores." https://www.bowlmark.com/ingredient/kidney-beans
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