navy beans

What it is

Small white beans (the baked-beans and navy-ration staple), slightly starchier than their pinto and black cousins. Same legume package: respectable plant protein, slow carbohydrate, fermentable fiber with sound effects.

Why it's in pet food

Grain-free formulation bulk. Navy beans appear where formulators want legume function with a milder flavor and paler kibble — aesthetics again, chemistry barely.

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; not on the legume flag's pea/lentil/chickpea roster. The bean trio's shared honesty: nothing here is dangerous — beans are food — but a grain-free recipe whose top 5 reads like a burrito filling is leaning on plant protein, and the guaranteed analysis's protein number won't tell you which kind. The ingredient order will.

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Foods that list navy beans

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

Sources

• FDA investigation: potential link between diet and canine DCM (2019 update)
• WSAVA Global Nutrition Committee — Selecting a pet food

Related ingredients

• kidney beans
• lentils
• lupins
• pea fiber
• pea flour
• pea protein

Further reading

• Grain-free, legumes and the DCM question
• How to read a pet food label