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
Puffed Pig Snouts	meat	poor	-1	3 products
Rind	other	poor	-1	12 products
Salt	additive	poor	-1	811 products
Seasoning	additive	poor	-1	1 product
Smoked Flavour	additive	poor	-1	42 products
Sodium Nitrite	additive	poor	-1	1 product
Sodium selenite	supplement	poor	-1	154 products
Soy Protein	carb	poor	-1	24 products
Soya	carb	poor	-1	79 products
Soybean Meal	carb	poor	-1	25 products
Soybean Mill	carb	poor	-1	5 products
Sucrose	other	poor	-1	7 products
Sugars	additive	poor	-1	147 products
Sunflower Meal	carb	poor	-1	10 products
Syrup	additive	poor	-1	8 products
Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate	additive	poor	-1	4 products
Titanium dioxide	additive	poor	-1	1 product
Unspecified Animal Fats and Oils	oil	poor	-1	254 products
Vegetable By-Products	other	poor	-1	367 products
Vegetable protein extracts	carb	poor	-1	188 products
Wheat	carb	poor	-1	397 products
Wheat Gluten	carb	poor	-1	53 products
Wheat feed	carb	poor	-1	13 products
Xylose	additive	poor	-1	6 products
Jaggery	carb	poor	-0.8	4 products
Cow Hoof	other	poor	-0.7	5 products
Soy Sauce	additive	poor	-0.7	1 product
Avocado	veg	poor	-0.6	2 products
Carmine	additive	poor	-0.6	1 product
Sodium Tripolyphosphate	additive	poor	-0.6	41 products
Palm Kernel Oil	oil	poor	-0.5	4 products
Food Acid	additive	poor	-0.3	7 products
Plant Extracts	additive	poor	-0.2	4 products
Seeds	veg	poor	0	72 products
Water	other	Ungraded	0	193 products
Connective tissue	meat	poor	0.2	4 products
Magnesium stearate	additive	poor	0.2	23 products
Mono And Diglycerides	additive	poor	0.2	1 product
Mono And Diglycerides Of Palmitic And Stearic Acids Esterified With Citric Acid	additive	poor	0.2	1 product
Sodium carbonate	additive	poor	0.2	8 products
Sodium phosphate	additive	poor	0.2	49 products
Sorbic acid	additive	poor	0.2	2 products
Sorbitol	additive	poor	0.2	17 products
Vinegar	additive	poor	0.2	60 products
Maltodextrin	carb	poor	0.3	51 products
Menadione sodium bisulfite complex	supplement	poor	0.3	13 products
Potato starch	carb	poor	0.3	374 products
Wheatfeed pellets	carb	poor	0.3	17 products
Cooking broth	other	medium	0.4	350 products
Cornstarch	carb	medium	0.4	76 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.