Meat Meal

Meat meal is cooked, dried, ground meat with most of the water removed. Where fresh meat contains 65 to 75 percent water, meat meal is about 5 percent water and 60 to 70 percent protein. Per pound of weight on the bag, meat meal contributes about three times the protein of fresh meat because the water is gone. Meal forms (chicken meal, lamb meal, salmon meal) are NOT lower quality than fresh forms despite the marketing fear of 'meals.' The strongest dog food recipes use both fresh meat in position one (for marketing) AND meat meal in position two or three (for actual protein density).