turnip greens

What it is

The leafy tops of turnips, cooked or dried: calcium, carotenoids, fiber, and moderate oxalates — closer to collards' gentle end of the range than to spinach's heavy one. Peppery raw, mild cooked.

Why it's in pet food

Green-vegetable content and garden variety in recipes; leftovers at home. Cooked, chopped, plain, and occasional is the entire instruction set.

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 (spinach and kale hold the leafy-green roster spots), no deduction, no flag. Like collards, turnip greens show what the roster can't: a gentler oxalate profile than spinach with none of spinach's bonus — nutrition and points remain different axes, and only one of them shows in a score.

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Foods that list turnip greens

Ranked by score where scores exist. Placement here is never sold.

• ORIJEN Amazing Grains, Original88
• ORIJEN Amazing Grains, Six Fish88
• ORIJEN WILD RESERVE, Farm-Raised Beef & Lamb Recipe84
• ORIJEN WILD RESERVE, Free-run Chicken84
• ORIJEN WILD RESERVE, Wild-Caught Fish Recipe84
• ACANA Highest Protein Wild Atlantic79

Sources

• WSAVA Global Nutrition Committee — Selecting a pet food
• MSD Veterinary Manual — dietary management of GI disease

Related ingredients

• apple pomace
• apples
• artichoke
• spinach
• strawberries
• tomato pomace

Further reading

• The marketing dictionary: which label words mean anything
• How to read a pet food label