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
Walnut Oil	oil	good	0.8	3 products
Wild Berry	veg	good	0.8	9 products
Wolffish	meat	good	0.8	1 product
Zinc Proteinate	supplement	good	0.8	191 products
Zinc chelate of glycine hydrate	supplement	good	0.8	1 product
Chickpea Fibre	fibre	good	0.75	3 products
Millet Flour	carb	good	0.75	1 product
Ribwort Plantain	supplement	good	0.75	14 products
Almonds	supplement	good	0.7	3 products
Amylase	supplement	good	0.7	2 products
Ashwagandha	supplement	good	0.7	16 products
Astragalus root powder	supplement	good	0.7	7 products
Beef Udder	meat	good	0.7	3 products
Black Cumin (0.3%)	supplement	good	0.7	3 products
Blackberry Leaves	veg	good	0.7	27 products
Breast	meat	medium	0.7	8 products
Broad Beans	veg	medium	0.7	14 products
Catfish	meat	good	0.7	2 products
Chaga Mushroom	supplement	good	0.7	4 products
Chamomile Flowers (Dried)	supplement	good	0.7	3 products
Cherry	veg	good	0.7	2 products
Chervil	veg	good	0.7	5 products
Chicken Oil and Fat	oil	good	0.7	768 products
Chicory root	veg	good	0.7	544 products
Cranberry Juice Concentrate	veg	good	0.7	2 products
Crushed Eggshells	supplement	good	0.7	114 products
Digestive Enzymes	supplement	good	0.7	5 products
Dried Cherry	veg	good	0.7	1 product
Dried Hemp	veg	good	0.7	23 products
Dried Lactobacillus acidophilus Fermentation Product	supplement	good	0.7	95 products
Dried Tomato and Carrot (Sources of Lycopene and Beta-Carotene)	veg	good	0.7	12 products
Emu Oil	oil	good	0.7	2 products
Fava Beans	veg	medium	0.7	91 products
Fennel Seed	supplement	good	0.7	39 products
Field Beans	veg	medium	0.7	5 products
Fresh Yellow Pepper	veg	good	0.7	3 products
Gram flour	carb	good	0.7	112 products
Grape (Vitis vinifera)	veg	good	0.7	7 products
Grass meal	veg	good	0.7	2 products
Haricot beans	veg	medium	0.7	5 products
Hazelnut	veg	good	0.7	2 products
Hibiscus	veg	good	0.7	2 products
Inositol and amino acids	supplement	good	0.7	18 products
Kefir	supplement	good	0.7	4 products
Kohlrabi	veg	good	0.7	3 products
L-glutamine	supplement	good	0.7	5 products
Lactobacillus rhamnosus	supplement	good	0.7	21 products
Leek	veg	good	0.7	12 products
Lentils	veg	medium	0.7	215 products
Lupin Beans	veg	medium	0.7	3 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.