Dried Fermentation Products (Probiotics)

Dried Fermentation Products (Probiotics) appears on the labels of 85 of the 244 recipes we have read and scored (35 percent of the database), in label forms including Dried Bacillus Coagulans Fermentation Product. C298224, Dried Bacillus Coagulans Fermentation Product. C298325, Dried Bacillus Coagulans Fermentation Product, Dried Bacillus Coagulans Fermentation Product. C277325, Dried Enterococcus Faecium Fermentation Product, Dried Lactobacillus Acidophilus Fermentation Product and 14 more label forms.

What it is

Dried cultures of named bacteria, Bacillus, Lactobacillus, Enterococcus and Bifidobacterium species, added live to the finished food.

Why makers use it

Gut population support: the claim is that enough organisms survive the bag and the stomach to matter in the intestine.

What to watch for

Better panels name the organism and guarantee a colony count. Whether the bacteria survive shelf life is the maker's claim to defend; the ingredient itself is a reasonable one.

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

Vitamin Supplements (the Vitamin Pack), Chelated and Proteinate Minerals, Mixed Tocopherols, Salt. The full dictionary is the ingredient index.