wild boar

Meat

Fresh wild boar is pork's feral cousin out of the roster's blind spot — gamier, semi-novel, and scoring alongside its domestic kin since the 2026-08 matcher update.

Also appears on labels as: boar

What it is

Fresh boar: leaner, stronger-flavored swine. The meal page's kinship caveat is the operative fact — boar and pork share enough proteins that pork-sensitized pets may cross-react, capping its elimination value.

Why it's in pet food

Ancestral branding with real culinary distinctiveness. As novelty it's the weak form: novel word, familiar proteins.

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 (the B-025 sweep delivered): fresh wild boar first now earns +15, exactly as fresh pork does — kin species no longer split by the roster. Read boar labels with pork's allergy logic and the exotic aisle's pricing skepticism both still active; the update fixed the score, not the price.

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Sources

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Bowlmark. "Wild boar in pet food — what it is and how it scores." https://www.bowlmark.com/ingredient/wild-boar

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