What kind of ingredient this is
green peas sits in the pulse / legume family. Pulses are the cheap protein-bulk ingredients (peas, lentils, chickpeas, fava beans) that grain-free formulations leaned on after the 2007 to 2018 reformulation wave. Sniff penalizes stacking when three or more pulse-family ingredients appear in the top 15.
Where green peas sits in the Sniff System
green peas carries a caution flag in the Sniff System. The methodology does not categorically reject it, but does penalize products where it appears in problematic concentrations, problematic combinations, or without offsetting positive ingredients.
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Similar ingredients in the catalog
Sniff's semantic graph clusters these ingredients near green peas by formulation profile. Each links to its own ingredient page.