Ingredient glossary

Browse 1,151 ingredients used by products in our catalogue. Classified ingredients are graded good, medium or poor; ungraded ingredients stay neutral until we classify them. Open an ingredient to see which products use it.

Ingredient grades and the number of UK dog food products that list each ingredient. Use the column headings to sort the table.
Ingredient	Category	Grade	Base score	Used in
Tri-protein blend	meat	medium	0.5	2 products
Trichoderma Reesei Fermentation Product	supplement	medium	0.5	2 products
Tuna Protein	meat	medium	0.5	5 products
Turkey	meat	medium	0.5	839 products
Turkey Skin	meat	medium	0.5	1 product
Tyndallised Lactobacillus	supplement	medium	0.5	14 products
Udder	meat	medium	0.5	19 products
Valerian Root	veg	medium	0.5	57 products
Vanilla extract	other	medium	0.5	7 products
Veal Lungs	meat	medium	0.5	6 products
Vegetable Broth	other	medium	0.5	10 products
Vegetable Fat	oil	medium	0.5	9 products
Vegetable Fibers	fibre	medium	0.5	4 products
Vegetable Gravy	other	medium	0.5	18 products
Vegetable Hydrolysate	other	medium	0.5	2 products
Vegetable Juice	additive	medium	0.5	3 products
Vegetable Oils and Fats	oil	medium	0.5	13 products
Vegetable Protein Hydrolysate	carb	medium	0.5	1 product
Vegetable Stock	other	medium	0.5	157 products
Vegetable carbon	additive	medium	0.5	2 products
Vegetable fibre	fibre	medium	0.5	97 products
Vegetable oil	oil	medium	0.5	227 products
Vegetables	veg	medium	0.5	283 products
Venison Protein	meat	medium	0.5	5 products
Vitamin & Mineral Premix	supplement	medium	0.5	1 product
Vitamin B2 & Niacin	supplement	medium	0.5	1 product
Vitamins and minerals	supplement	medium	0.5	2,887 products
Walnut	other	medium	0.5	6 products
Wheat Semolina Bran	fibre	medium	0.5	2 products
Wheatgerm Oil	oil	medium	0.5	85 products
White Poplar Bark Powder	fibre	medium	0.5	1 product
Whole Wheat Flour	carb	medium	0.5	11 products
Wild Boar Protein	meat	medium	0.5	5 products
Wild Yam	veg	medium	0.5	29 products
Xanthan gum	additive	medium	0.5	19 products
Yoghurt	other	medium	0.5	37 products
Coneflower Herb (Echinacea)	supplement	medium	0.55	4 products
Date	fruit	medium	0.55	3 products
Extruded Linseed	oil	medium	0.55	4 products
Hydrolyzed Turkey	meat	medium	0.55	18 products
Apple Fibre	fibre	medium	0.6	236 products
Beef Stomach	meat	medium	0.6	1 product
Beef Tripe	meat	medium	0.6	156 products
Beef head meat	meat	medium	0.6	4 products
Beef lung	meat	medium	0.6	129 products
Buckwheat	carb	medium	0.6	39 products
Calcium iodate	supplement	medium	0.6	115 products
Chicken Broth	meat	medium	0.6	139 products
Chicken and Beef (Pork Lung and Caul)	meat	medium	0.6	1 product
Chlorophyllin	supplement	medium	0.6	3 products

Base scores run from -1 to 1; higher is better. They are inputs to the whole-recipe rating, not product scores themselves. How ingredient scoring works.