tomato pomace
Tomato pomace is one of kibble's most common fibers — the skins and pulp left after juice and sauce. A named byproduct doing honest work, minus the folklore.
Also appears on labels as: dried tomato pomace
What it is
The skins, pulp, and seeds remaining after tomatoes are pressed for juice, sauce, and paste: a fermentable fiber source with residual lycopene. It is made from RIPE tomatoes — the green-tomato/tomatine worry that trails the nightshade family doesn't apply to pomace at any realistic level.
Why it's in pet food
Cheap, consistent, well-tolerated fiber that also binds kibble — the reason it appears in an enormous share of dry recipes. Its ubiquity is function, not filler conspiracy: stool-quality studies keep treating it kindly.
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 (unlike apple pomace, which rides the "apple" term — the roster's term-matching quirk documented on that page), no deduction, no flag. Tomato pomace is the counter-example that keeps the pomace story honest: same processing category, no bonus, same respectable function.
Foods that list tomato pomace
Ranked by score where scores exist. Placement here is never sold.
- Hill's Science Diet Adult Perfect Weight Large Breed Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe93
- Hill's Science Diet Adult Perfect Weight Small & Mini Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe93
- Blue Buffalo Life Protection Formula Adult Dry Dog Food - Chicken & Brown Rice91
- Taste of the Wild Sierra Mountain Canine Recipe with Roasted Lamb91
- Hill's Science Diet Adult Perfect Weight & Joint Support Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe90
- Taste of the Wild Ancient Mountain Canine Recipe with Roasted Lamb90
- Taste of the Wild Ancient Wetlands Canine Recipe with Roasted Fowl90
- Hill's Science Diet Adult Perfect Weight Small Bites Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe89
Compare foods that list tomato pomace
Same species, same form, both scored — closest scores first, so the comparison is a real one.
- Blue Buffalo Life Protection Formula Adult Dry Dog Food - Chicken & Brown Rice vs Taste of the Wild Sierra Mountain Canine Recipe with Roasted Lamb
- Hill's Science Diet Adult Perfect Weight & Joint Support Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe vs Taste of the Wild Ancient Mountain Canine Recipe with Roasted Lamb
- Hill's Science Diet Adult Perfect Weight & Joint Support Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe vs Taste of the Wild Ancient Wetlands Canine Recipe with Roasted Fowl
- Hill's Science Diet Adult Perfect Weight Large Breed Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe vs Hill's Science Diet Adult Perfect Weight Small & Mini Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe
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Further reading
Cite this page
Bowlmark. "Tomato pomace in pet food — what it is and how it scores." https://www.bowlmark.com/ingredient/tomato-pomace
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