pears

Fruit & vegetable

Pears are apples' softer siblings: pectin, modest sugar, the same trivial seed caveat — and no bonus seat, which says nothing about the fruit.

Also appears on labels as: pear · dried pears · whole pears · pear pomace

What it is

Whole pear, fresh, dried, or as pomace: water, gentle sugars, and pectin fiber, in a slightly sweeter and softer package than apple. The seeds carry the same cyanogenic-compound trivia as apple pips — real chemistry, irrelevant dose, and recipes use seedless material anyway.

Why it's in pet food

Palatable fiber and orchard warmth on the label, usually well down the list. At home, ripe pear slices are an easy soft treat for dogs, seniors especially.

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: the roster seats apple but not pear, so pear passes unscored in every form including pomace — no bonus, no deduction, no flag. A recipe trading apple pomace for pear pomace loses two points and changes nothing a gut would notice; the pages keep saying this because term-level rosters keep making it true.

For dogs

Soft ripe pear (core removed for comfort, not chemistry) suits older mouths well; dried pear concentrates the sugar and counts accordingly.

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Foods that list pears

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Sources

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Bowlmark. "Pears in pet food — what it is and how it scores." https://www.bowlmark.com/ingredient/pears

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