What kind of ingredient this is
pea fiber 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 pea fiber sits in the Sniff System
The methodology treats pea fiber as neither positive nor negative on its own. Whether it lifts or hurts a product's score depends on context: position in the ingredient list, ratio to higher-quality ingredients, and the rest of the formulation.
Every methodology choice is published, citeable, and subject to revision when new evidence arrives. Read the full Sniff methodology for the formulas behind every score component, or file a correction if you think this position is wrong.
Similar ingredients in the catalog
Sniff's semantic graph clusters these ingredients near pea fiber by formulation profile. Each links to its own ingredient page.