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
Gelatin Powder	supplement	medium	0.5	5 products
Ginkgo Biloba	supplement	medium	0.5	42 products
Ginseng	supplement	medium	0.5	48 products
Glycerine	other	medium	0.5	733 products
Grape Seed Expeller	other	medium	0.5	21 products
Grapefruit	veg	medium	0.5	12 products
Grapeseed Extract	supplement	medium	0.5	6 products
Gravy / sauce	additive	medium	0.5	9 products
Greaves Protein	meat	medium	0.5	7 products
Green Mineral Clay	mineral	medium	0.5	3 products
Green Vegetables	veg	medium	0.5	76 products
Guar gum	additive	medium	0.5	88 products
Ham	meat	medium	0.5	8 products
Hawthorn	veg	medium	0.5	39 products
Heads	meat	medium	0.5	1 product
Hemoglobin	meat	medium	0.5	13 products
Hemoglobin Powder	meat	medium	0.5	3 products
Hemp Flour	carb	medium	0.5	13 products
Hemp Pellet	fibre	medium	0.5	1 product
Hemp Protein	supplement	medium	0.5	6 products
Herbs	veg	medium	0.5	244 products
Herring Meal	meat	medium	0.5	37 products
Hieracium Pilosella	veg	medium	0.5	4 products
Honey	carb	medium	0.5	69 products
Honey Powder	carb	medium	0.5	9 products
Horehound	other	medium	0.5	7 products
Horsetail	veg	medium	0.5	12 products
Hydrolysed Animal Protein	meat	medium	0.5	179 products
Hydrolysed Chicken	meat	medium	0.5	25 products
Hydrolysed Chicken Liver	meat	medium	0.5	101 products
Hydrolysed Chicken Protein	meat	medium	0.5	33 products
Hydrolysed Gelatine	other	medium	0.5	3 products
Hydrolysed Pig Liver	meat	medium	0.5	5 products
Hydrolysed Pork	meat	medium	0.5	14 products
Hydrolysed Poultry	meat	medium	0.5	17 products
Hydrolysed Poultry Liver	meat	medium	0.5	54 products
Hydrolysed Poultry Protein	meat	medium	0.5	78 products
Hydrolysed White Fish	meat	medium	0.5	15 products
Hydrolysed Yeast	additive	medium	0.5	314 products
Hydrolyzed Collagen	supplement	medium	0.5	4 products
Hydrolyzed Crustacean Shells	supplement	medium	0.5	4 products
Hydrolyzed Fish Protein	meat	medium	0.5	21 products
Insect Fat	oil	medium	0.5	3 products
Insect Oil	oil	medium	0.5	12 products
Iodine	supplement	medium	0.5	8 products
Konjac	additive	medium	0.5	2 products
Krill Meal	meat	medium	0.5	12 products
L-Carnitine	supplement	medium	0.5	129 products
Lactic Acid	additive	medium	0.5	51 products
Lamb	meat	medium	0.5	648 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.