Alfalfa Meal

Alfalfa Meal appears on the labels of 36 of the 244 recipes we have read and scored (15 percent of the database), in label forms including Direct Dehydrated Alfalfa Pellets, Alfalfa Nutrient Concentrate, Alfalfa Meal, Dehydrated Alfalfa Meal.

What it is

Dried alfalfa, the forage legume, ground into the recipe: fibre, plant protein and vitamin K.

Why makers use it

A traditional fibre and nutrient filler in the older, honourable sense: bulk with something in it.

What to watch for

Alfalfa counts as a legume line in our panel reading, because botanically and nutritionally that is what it is.

Highest scoring recipes that carry it

The full database, filterable by brand, format, life stage and grains, is the reviews index; the food finder answers it by the proteins a dog must avoid.

Often on the same panels

Salt, Mixed Tocopherols, Rosemary Extract, Choline Chloride. The full dictionary is the ingredient index.