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
Rice - brown / whole grain	carb	medium	0.5	470 products
Rice - white	carb	medium	0.5	1,144 products
Rice Protein	carb	medium	0.5	36 products
Rice flour	carb	medium	0.5	156 products
Roasted Lupin Meal	carb	medium	0.5	2 products
Safflower	veg	medium	0.5	5 products
Sea Salt	mineral	medium	0.5	68 products
Seafood	meat	medium	0.5	112 products
Seasonal Greens	veg	medium	0.5	5 products
Seaweed Lime	mineral	medium	0.5	10 products
Seaweed Meal	supplement	medium	0.5	222 products
Semolina	carb	medium	0.5	8 products
Sepiolite Clay	additive	medium	0.5	2 products
Sesame	supplement	medium	0.5	5 products
Sheep fat	oil	medium	0.5	52 products
Silica	mineral	medium	0.5	11 products
Skimmed Milk Powder	meat	medium	0.5	12 products
Skin	meat	medium	0.5	71 products
Sodium Bicarbonate	additive	medium	0.5	32 products
Sodium Caseinate	additive	medium	0.5	1 product
Sodium benzoate	additive	medium	0.5	2 products
Sodium hexametaphosphate	additive	medium	0.5	46 products
Sorghum	carb	medium	0.5	87 products
Soya Milk Extract	supplement	medium	0.5	1 product
Soybean Hulls	fibre	medium	0.5	2 products
Soybean oil	oil	medium	0.5	150 products
Spatzle Noodles	carb	medium	0.5	1 product
Spelt	carb	medium	0.5	14 products
Spelt Flour	carb	medium	0.5	7 products
Spices	veg	medium	0.5	20 products
Spray-Dried Animal Blood Cells	meat	medium	0.5	7 products
St. John's Wort	veg	medium	0.5	26 products
Stomach	meat	medium	0.5	84 products
Sugar Beet	carb	medium	0.5	22 products
Sulfur	supplement	medium	0.5	1 product
Sunflower Expellers	carb	medium	0.5	1 product
Sunflower protein	carb	medium	0.5	3 products
Sunflower seed expeller	carb	medium	0.5	2 products
Sweet Lupin Flour	carb	medium	0.5	2 products
Sweet whey powder	other	medium	0.5	82 products
Tagetes	veg	medium	0.5	5 products
Tails	meat	medium	0.5	5 products
Tallow	oil	medium	0.5	39 products
Tangerine	veg	medium	0.5	2 products
Tapioca	carb	medium	0.5	211 products
Tapioca Starch	carb	medium	0.5	118 products
Threonine	supplement	medium	0.5	40 products
Throat	meat	medium	0.5	11 products
Tomato Pomace	fibre	medium	0.5	103 products
Tomato Powder	veg	medium	0.5	40 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.