lamb kidney
Lamb kidney is the kidney slot of lamb-first recipes — named, dense, traditional. How Bowlmark scores named organs.
Also appears on labels as: lamb kidneys
What it is
Lamb kidney is sheep kidney: B12, selenium, iron, and quality protein in a small package. It appears mostly in lamb-based wet and raw-style recipes keeping the formula single-species.
Why it's in pet food
Same reasoning as beef kidney, in service of a lamb recipe's species integrity. A named organ in a named-species recipe is a label doing everything right on transparency.
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.
Lamb kidney is a named protein source to the engine — the word "lamb" is what it reads. When it is the first ingredient it earns the 15-point fresh named-protein bonus on the ingredient-quality pillar; in any other slot it earns nothing, because only named meals score in the second and third slots. No deduction applies — an organ sold under its own name is the transparent version of what "by-product" hides.
Foods that list lamb kidney
No food on the shelf lists lamb kidney 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. "Lamb kidney in pet food — what it is and how it scores." https://www.bowlmark.com/ingredient/lamb-kidney
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