lettuce
Lettuce is crunchy water — the most harmless ingredient in the produce aisle and very nearly the least nutritious. Neutral in every sense, including the engine's.
Also appears on labels as: dried lettuce
What it is
Lettuce, fresh or dried: over 95% water wrapped around trace fiber and vitamins. The dried form in recipes is a label garnish; the fresh form at home is a zero-calorie crunch some dogs genuinely enjoy.
Why it's in pet food
Variety and garden imagery on the label; entertainment value in the kitchen. Nothing about lettuce moves nutrition in either direction at any realistic amount.
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.
Neutral: no bonus seat, no deduction, no flag. Lettuce is the purest case of the roster principle — perfectly safe, nutritionally near-silent, and unscored because a bonus it could earn would reward decoration, not substance.
For dogs
Crisp lettuce pieces make a fine zero-guilt treat for dogs that like the crunch; romaine's water content even helps on hot days.
Foods that list lettuce
No food on the shelf lists lettuce yet. Scan a bag that does and its label joins the catalog — versioned from the day it arrives.
Sources
Related ingredients
Further reading
Cite this page
Bowlmark. "Lettuce in pet food — what it is and how it scores." https://www.bowlmark.com/ingredient/lettuce
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