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
Lupins	carb	medium	0.7	11 products
Magnesium Oxide	supplement	good	0.7	31 products
Magnesium Phosphate	mineral	good	0.7	5 products
Magnesium glycinate	supplement	good	0.7	8 products
Maitake Mushroom	veg	good	0.7	16 products
Microbial Protein	supplement	good	0.7	11 products
Nasturtium	veg	good	0.7	1 product
Niacin	supplement	good	0.7	196 products
Oat Groats	carb	good	0.7	49 products
Oat bran	fibre	good	0.7	24 products
Okra	veg	good	0.7	1 product
Organic crude wheatgerm	veg	good	0.7	16 products
Pantothenic Acid	supplement	good	0.7	13 products
Parsley Leaf (Dried)	veg	good	0.7	104 products
Peanuts	other	good	0.7	18 products
Phosphorus	supplement	good	0.7	16 products
Pineapple	veg	good	0.7	85 products
Quercetin	supplement	good	0.7	6 products
Rosehip Shells	supplement	good	0.7	17 products
Sarsaparilla Root	supplement	good	0.7	4 products
Superfoods (Incl. Healthy Vegetables)	veg	good	0.7	10 products
Sweet Lupine	carb	medium	0.7	1 product
Thistle oil	oil	good	0.7	4 products
Tricalcium phosphate	supplement	good	0.7	35 products
TruCal Milk Mineral Complex	supplement	good	0.7	5 products
Whey Protein Concentrate	supplement	good	0.7	8 products
Whole Grains	carb	good	0.7	23 products
Whole Navy Beans	carb	medium	0.7	9 products
Whole Pinto Beans	carb	medium	0.7	17 products
Wild Berries (Rowan)	veg	good	0.7	2 products
Wild Herbs	veg	good	0.7	13 products
Yeast Beta-glucan	supplement	good	0.7	11 products
Zinc Oxide	supplement	good	0.7	58 products
Apple Fibre	fibre	medium	0.6	236 products
Beef Stomach	meat	medium	0.6	1 product
Beef Tripe	meat	medium	0.6	156 products
Beef head meat	meat	medium	0.6	4 products
Beef lung	meat	medium	0.6	129 products
Buckwheat	carb	medium	0.6	39 products
Calcium iodate	supplement	medium	0.6	115 products
Chicken Broth	meat	medium	0.6	139 products
Chicken and Beef (Pork Lung and Caul)	meat	medium	0.6	1 product
Chlorophyllin	supplement	medium	0.6	3 products
Coconut Flakes	veg	medium	0.6	36 products
Cow's Milk	meat	medium	0.6	57 products
Fresh Lime Juice	veg	medium	0.6	23 products
Horse Lung	meat	medium	0.6	4 products
Lamb Ears	meat	medium	0.6	7 products
Lamb Lung	meat	medium	0.6	61 products
Lamb Tripe	meat	medium	0.6	79 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.