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Sweet Potatoes

Sweet Potatoes appears on the labels of 69 of the 244 recipes we have read and scored (28 percent of the database), in label forms including Dried Sweet Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes, SWEET POTATOES, sweet potatoes, Sweet Potato, sweet potato.

What it is

The orange starchy root, dried or fresh: energy, fiber and beta carotene.

Why makers use it

The default grain free starch before legumes took over, and still the binder in many limited ingredient panels.

What to watch for

Sweet potato is a food, not a supplement: at second or third place on a panel it is carrying the recipe's energy.

Highest scoring recipes that carry it

RecipeScore / 100FormatLife stage
Taste of the Wild High Prairie93Dry foodAdult maintenance
Taste of the Wild Wetlands93Dry foodAdult maintenance
Orijen Puppy Poultry & Fish Pâté91Wet foodAll life stages
Taste of the Wild Southwest Canyon Wet91Wet foodAll life stages
Taste of the Wild High Prairie Wet91Wet foodAll life stages
Taste of the Wild Wetlands Wet91Wet foodAll life stages
Taste of the Wild Pacific Stream Wet91Wet foodAll life stages
Taste of the Wild High Prairie Puppy91Dry foodAll life stages

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

Chelated and Proteinate Minerals, Vitamin Supplements (the Vitamin Pack), Selenium Yeast and Sodium Selenite, Salt. The full dictionary is the ingredient index.

Sources and method.

The definition is written from AAFCO's ingredient definitions and standard label practice, in our own words. The recipe count and links are computed from our scored recipe database, labels read November 2026; counts move as the database grows.

Last updated: November 2026. Checked against the sources named on this page.