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Turkey Meal appears on the labels of 20 of the 244 recipes we have read and scored (8 percent of the database), in label forms including Turkey Meal, turkey meal.
Turkey rendered and dried to a protein concentrate before weighing, the same process as chicken meal applied to a different bird.
It concentrates turkey protein so a panel can be poultry led without relying on fresh meat's water weight.
Read it exactly as you would chicken meal: a named, defined, consistent protein source.
| Recipe | Score / 100 | Format | Life stage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellness CORE Wholesome Grains Original Turkey Recipe | 92 | Dry food | Adult maintenance |
| Wellness CORE Puppy Chicken & Turkey Recipe | 89 | Dry food | Growth (puppy) |
| Merrick Backcountry Bone Broth Coated Beef & Bison | 87 | Dry food | Adult maintenance |
| Merrick Backcountry Freeze Dried Raw Game Bird | 87 | Dry food | Adult maintenance |
| Merrick Backcountry Raw Freeze Dried Big Game | 87 | Dry food | Adult maintenance |
| Merrick Backcountry Raw Infused Large Breed | 87 | Dry food | Adult maintenance |
| Merrick Grain Free Real Duck & Sweet Potato | 87 | Dry food | Adult maintenance |
| Merrick Hero's Banquet Ancestral Diet | 87 | Dry food | Adult maintenance |
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.
Chicken Fat, Taurine, Mixed Tocopherols, Choline Chloride. The full dictionary is the ingredient index.
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.