ostrich
Ostrich is red meat from a bird — the ratite paradox protein, deeply novel for allergy work, and on the roster since the 2026-08 matcher update.
What it is
Fresh ostrich: physiologically bird, nutritionally red meat — dark, iron-rich, very lean. Ratites sit far from chicken taxonomically, making ostrich one of the more defensible 'novel poultry' claims, unlike the chicken cousins wearing that label.
Why it's in pet food
Serious elimination work and exotic positioning. Supply is thin and South-African-weighted; recipes are few.
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.
Seated (B-025, resolved): full roster credit now for the precise naming. The taxonomy note is the useful cargo — 'bird' is not one allergen, and ostrich's distance from chicken is measured in a hundred million years; for once the exotic price buys real immunological distance.
Foods that list ostrich
No food on the shelf lists ostrich 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. "Ostrich in pet food — what it is and how it scores." https://www.bowlmark.com/ingredient/ostrich
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