wild boar meal
Wild boar meal names its species precisely and is finally paid for it — seated on the named-protein roster, with honest novel-pork facts alongside.
What it is
Rendered, dried wild boar — feral or farmed swine, leaner and gamier than domestic pork. As a protein it's pork-adjacent with novel-ish status; pets sensitized to pork may cross-react, a caveat elimination planning should respect.
Why it's in pet food
Ancestral branding and semi-novelty. Its allergy value is weaker than rabbit's or kangaroo's precisely because of the pork kinship — 'novel' is about immune recognition, and boar and pig are close cousins.
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 on the named-protein roster since the 2026-08 matcher update: 'wild boar meal' first now earns the same +12 that 'venison meal' does, and +8 anywhere in the top three. The gap this page used to narrate is settled — the species disclosure is real, worth preferring, and now worth points.
Foods that list wild boar meal
No food on the shelf lists wild boar meal yet. Scan a bag that does and its label joins the catalog — versioned from the day it arrives.
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Bowlmark. "Wild boar meal in pet food — what it is and how it scores." https://www.bowlmark.com/ingredient/wild-boar-meal
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