Healthy Meat Lid Wet Foods - Complete For Dogs And Cats?

[Wile]

Maybe the company includes a few whole peas to appeal to people (Oh look! Yummy healthy peas for kitty!) and the majority of the peas are ground up and mixed with the meat and other ingredients.

In this case it depends on the particular type you buy.

NVI Original Rabbit canned has a couple of peas and pieces of carrot in it, but no pea flour listed in the ingredients. It also contains pork liver. It is supposed to be 95% meat.

NVI Rabbit LID canned has pea protein mixed in and a couple of visible peas, so you can't really avoid the pea protein in the LID version.

In some cases peas are obviously just a cheap way to add protein. I think the 6 peas and bits of carrot in the Original rabbit recipe are there to act as fibre content, since most pet food companies don't add animal fibre like bones and fur into their food.