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
Duck Muscle Meat	meat	good	0.8	1 product
Eggshell Membrane Powder	supplement	good	0.8	2 products
Elderflower Petals	supplement	good	0.8	3 products
EpiCor Pets	supplement	good	0.8	6 products
Finely Ground Turkey Bone	supplement	good	0.8	29 products
Fish Skin	meat	good	0.8	41 products
Folic acid	supplement	good	0.8	198 products
Goat	meat	good	0.8	54 products
Goat milk	meat	good	0.8	23 products
Greater Plantain	veg	good	0.8	9 products
Ground Flaxseed (2%)	supplement	good	0.8	37 products
Haematococcus pluvialis	supplement	good	0.8	3 products
Herring Protein	meat	good	0.8	9 products
Horse	meat	good	0.8	25 products
Horse Fat	oil	good	0.8	4 products
Horse Heart	meat	good	0.8	10 products
Horse Liver	meat	good	0.8	10 products
Horse Meat	meat	good	0.8	23 products
Horse Spleen	meat	good	0.8	4 products
Hyaluronic acid	supplement	good	0.8	52 products
Hydrolyzed lamb	meat	good	0.8	8 products
Inulin	fibre	good	0.8	441 products
Iron Proteinate	mineral	good	0.8	174 products
Iron Sulphate Monohydrate	mineral	good	0.8	3 products
Jerusalem Artichoke Powder	fibre	good	0.8	29 products
Joint and Coat Blend	supplement	good	0.8	3 products
Kangaroo tail butt	meat	good	0.8	4 products
Kiwi	veg	good	0.8	4 products
Krill Protein	meat	good	0.8	4 products
L-Arginine	supplement	good	0.8	2 products
L-Theanine	supplement	good	0.8	8 products
L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate	supplement	good	0.8	49 products
Lacticaseibacillus paracasei	supplement	good	0.8	21 products
Lactiplantibacillus Plantarum	supplement	good	0.8	8 products
Lactobacillus Bulgaricus	supplement	good	0.8	7 products
Lactobacillus casei	supplement	good	0.8	13 products
Lactobacillus fermentum	supplement	good	0.8	7 products
Lactobacillus plantarum	supplement	good	0.8	32 products
Lactococcus lactis	supplement	good	0.8	8 products
Lamb Broth	meat	good	0.8	44 products
Lamb Heart	meat	good	0.8	78 products
Lamb Ribs	meat	good	0.8	11 products
Limosilactobacillus reuteri	supplement	good	0.8	5 products
Lion's Mane Mushroom	supplement	good	0.8	2 products
Lipoic Acid	supplement	good	0.8	9 products
Liver Meal	meat	good	0.8	5 products
Lovage	veg	good	0.8	57 products
Magnesium sulfate	supplement	good	0.8	23 products
Manganese	supplement	good	0.8	12 products
Manganese (II) Oxide	supplement	good	0.8	33 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.