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.
IngredientCategoryGradeBase scoreUsed in
Bone mealmineralmedium0.522 products
Bresaolameatmedium0.51 product
Buckwheat Flourcarbmedium0.55 products
Butteroilmedium0.51 product
Butyric Acidsupplementmedium0.52 products
By-productsmeatmedium0.535 products
Calcium Carbonatesupplementmedium0.5439 products
Calcium Sulphatemineralmedium0.54 products
Calcium phosphatesupplementmedium0.53 products
Cane Molassescarbmedium0.559 products
Carcassmeatmedium0.524 products
Carlina acaulisothermedium0.51 product
Carobfibremedium0.595 products
Carob Bean Mealfibremedium0.526 products
Carob Flourfibremedium0.541 products
Carob Pod Mealfibremedium0.521 products
Carrot Pomacefibremedium0.513 products
Cassavacarbmedium0.54 products
Cassava Flourcarbmedium0.54 products
Catnipothermedium0.52 products
Cayenne Peppersupplementmedium0.51 product
Cellulasesupplementmedium0.51 product
Cellulosefibremedium0.5145 products
Cellulose Fibrefibremedium0.582 products
Charcoalothermedium0.524 products
Cheeseothermedium0.552 products
Cherry Powdervegmedium0.53 products
Chestnutsvegmedium0.55 products
Chickenmeatmedium0.51,974 products
Chicken Stomachsmeatmedium0.510 products
Chicory Pulpfibremedium0.539 products
Chitosansupplementmedium0.514 products
Citric Acidadditivemedium0.5130 products
Citric Extractadditivemedium0.53 products
Citrus Fibrefibremedium0.51 product
Citrus Pulpfibremedium0.557 products
Clayadditivemedium0.543 products
Clinoptilolitemineralmedium0.520 products
Clinoptilolite of Sedimentary Originmineralmedium0.53 products
Cobalt proteinatesupplementmedium0.56 products
Coconut Fat Powderoilmedium0.52 products
Coconut Flourcarbmedium0.537 products
Coconut Oiloilmedium0.5330 products
Colostrumsupplementmedium0.512 products
Coltsfootvegmedium0.56 products
Comfreyvegmedium0.57 products
Comfrey Leavesvegmedium0.54 products
Cooked Wheat Flakescarbmedium0.51 product
Copra Oiloilmedium0.53 products
Corn flourcarbmedium0.53 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.