INGREDIENT
Cassava Root Flour
Also printed as “Organic Cassava Root Flour” on some labels. Same ingredient.
Flour milled from the cassava root, used as a grain-free carbohydrate and binder.
Why it turns up in dog food
- Very digestible and unlikely to trigger a reaction, useful in limited-ingredient recipes. Provides starch energy.
Other names for this
Manufacturers do not all use the same wording. These all mean the same thing.
An ingredient on its own tells you very little.
What matters is how much of it there is and where it sits in the list. That is why we weigh
the top five rather than reacting to any single name further down.
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