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
Couch Grass	veg	medium	0.5	6 products
Crab Extract	supplement	medium	0.5	8 products
Crabshell	supplement	medium	0.5	4 products
Cream	other	medium	0.5	1 product
Cress	veg	medium	0.5	7 products
Crude Fat	oil	medium	0.5	23 products
Crude Fibre	fibre	medium	0.5	17 products
Crustacean Shells	supplement	medium	0.5	3 products
Curcuminoids	supplement	medium	0.5	11 products
Deer antler	other	medium	0.5	21 products
Dehydrated Chicken and Turkey	meat	medium	0.5	33 products
Devil's Claw	veg	medium	0.5	48 products
Diatomaceous earth	additive	medium	0.5	34 products
Dicalcium phosphate	supplement	medium	0.5	163 products
Disodium Dihydrogen Diphosphate	additive	medium	0.5	1 product
Dolomite	mineral	medium	0.5	1 product
Dried Animal Protein	meat	medium	0.5	14 products
Dried Apple Pomace	fibre	medium	0.5	24 products
Dried Citrus	veg	medium	0.5	11 products
Dried Egg	meat	medium	0.5	253 products
Dried Ground Fish	meat	medium	0.5	2 products
Dried Kiwi	veg	medium	0.5	1 product
Dried Melissa Officinalis	veg	medium	0.5	9 products
Dried Melon Juice	veg	medium	0.5	3 products
Dried Mineral Clay	mineral	medium	0.5	7 products
Dried Pork and Beef Protein	meat	medium	0.5	3 products
Dried Poultry	meat	medium	0.5	5 products
Dried Thymus Vulgaris	veg	medium	0.5	56 products
Duck	meat	medium	0.5	550 products
Duck Protein Hydrolysate	meat	medium	0.5	1 product
Elm Bark	supplement	medium	0.5	11 products
Ethylenediamine Dihydroiodide	supplement	medium	0.5	9 products
Faba Beans	carb	medium	0.5	9 products
Faba bean hulls	fibre	medium	0.5	6 products
Fava Bean Flour	carb	medium	0.5	11 products
Fava Bean Protein	carb	medium	0.5	6 products
Field Bean Hulls	fibre	medium	0.5	11 products
Fish Meal	meat	medium	0.5	257 products
Fresh Meat	meat	medium	0.5	133 products
Fructooligosaccharides Mannanoligosaccharides	supplement	medium	0.5	2 products
Fruit	veg	medium	0.5	96 products
Fucus Vesiculosus Extract	supplement	medium	0.5	13 products
Fulvic Acid	supplement	medium	0.5	24 products
Galactooligosaccharides	supplement	medium	0.5	9 products
Galactose	carb	medium	0.5	1 product
Game	meat	medium	0.5	17 products
Game Lung	meat	medium	0.5	3 products
Gamma-cyclodextrin	carb	medium	0.5	3 products
Garlic	veg	medium	0.5	50 products
Gelatin	supplement	medium	0.5	101 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.