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
Zinc Proteinate	supplement	good	0.8	191 products
Zinc chelate of glycine hydrate	supplement	good	0.8	1 product
Betaine Anhydrous	supplement	good	0.85	8 products
Dried Bifidobacterium Animalis Fermentation Product	supplement	good	0.85	29 products
Dried Wild Berries	fruit	good	0.85	14 products
Ground Cow Cheek	meat	good	0.85	1 product
Horse Broth	meat	good	0.85	4 products
Organic Chicken & Turkey Bones/Cartilage	supplement	good	0.85	10 products
Pancreas	meat	good	0.85	4 products
Sesame Oil	oil	good	0.85	6 products
Tart Cherries	fruit	good	0.85	1 product
Thiamine Hydrochloride	supplement	good	0.85	12 products
White Fish	meat	good	0.85	282 products
Astaxanthin	supplement	good	0.9	6 products
Beef Kidney	meat	good	0.9	253 products
Beef Spleen	meat	good	0.9	29 products
Beef muscle meat	meat	good	0.9	16 products
Bifidobacterium Animalis	supplement	good	0.9	2 products
Buckwheat Sprouts	veg	good	0.9	8 products
Buffalo	meat	good	0.9	54 products
Chaste Tree	supplement	good	0.9	1 product
Chicken Neck	meat	good	0.9	30 products
Coriander Leaves	veg	good	0.9	20 products
Crocodile	meat	good	0.9	1 product
Dehydrated Carrots	veg	good	0.9	2 products
Dried Salmon Skin	meat	good	0.9	7 products
Dried Sea Algae	supplement	good	0.9	186 products
Fresh Deboned Rabbit	meat	good	0.9	3 products
Grass-fed Ox Rib	meat	good	0.9	9 products
Green Beef Tripe	meat	good	0.9	11 products
Hoki Oil	oil	good	0.9	2 products
Horse Kidney	meat	good	0.9	5 products
Hydrolyzed Salmon	meat	good	0.9	27 products
Kangaroo	meat	good	0.9	30 products
Knotted Wrack (Seaweed)	veg	good	0.9	10 products
Lactobacillus Delbrueckii Fermentation Product	supplement	good	0.9	1 product
Lactobacillus Plantarum Fermentation Product	supplement	good	0.9	32 products
Meadowsweet	supplement	good	0.9	5 products
Ostrich	meat	good	0.9	16 products
Pomegranate Seeds	veg	good	0.9	49 products
Pork Liver	meat	good	0.9	114 products
Poultry Heart	meat	good	0.9	31 products
Pyridoxine (Vitamin B6)	supplement	good	0.9	3 products
Raw whole rockfish	meat	good	0.9	6 products
Raw whole sole	meat	good	0.9	2 products
Salmon Belly	meat	good	0.9	1 product
Truffle	veg	good	0.9	3 products
Turkey liver	meat	good	0.9	110 products
Venison Broth	meat	good	0.9	6 products
Winter Savory	supplement	good	0.9	8 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.