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
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
Lentil Fiber	fibre	medium	0.5	27 products
Lespedeza	veg	medium	0.5	3 products
Lettuce	veg	medium	0.5	7 products
Licorice Root	supplement	medium	0.5	28 products
Lignocellulose	fibre	medium	0.5	191 products
Limestone	mineral	medium	0.5	5 products
Limestone Flour	mineral	medium	0.5	4 products
Linden flowers	veg	medium	0.5	2 products
Linseed Cake	fibre	medium	0.5	61 products
Liquid Vegetable Starch	carb	medium	0.5	17 products
Liquorice	veg	medium	0.5	30 products
Liverwurst	meat	medium	0.5	1 product
Lung	meat	medium	0.5	126 products
Lupin Flour	veg	medium	0.5	2 products
Lysine	supplement	medium	0.5	46 products
Mackerel Meal	meat	medium	0.5	3 products
Maerl	supplement	medium	0.5	4 products
Maize / Corn	carb	medium	0.5	542 products
Maize Flour	carb	medium	0.5	76 products
Maize Germ Meal	carb	medium	0.5	8 products
Maize Germ Oil	oil	medium	0.5	13 products
Mallow	veg	medium	0.5	4 products
Malt	carb	medium	0.5	7 products
Malt Extract	carb	medium	0.5	6 products
Manganese sulfate	supplement	medium	0.5	66 products
Maple Syrup	carb	medium	0.5	2 products
Marine Proteins	meat	medium	0.5	1 product
Meat Meal	meat	medium	0.5	236 products
Meat Trimming	meat	medium	0.5	11 products
Melatonin	supplement	medium	0.5	1 product
Mineral Earth	supplement	medium	0.5	3 products
Mineral Premix	mineral	medium	0.5	2 products
Minthostachys verticillata	veg	medium	0.5	9 products
Miscanthus Grass	fibre	medium	0.5	34 products
Mistletoe	veg	medium	0.5	28 products
Moor	other	medium	0.5	8 products
Mugwort	herb	medium	0.5	7 products
Mussel Meat Meal	meat	medium	0.5	14 products
Natural colourings	additive	medium	0.5	1 product
Natural flavour	additive	medium	0.5	2 products
Neck	meat	medium	0.5	107 products
Neem Leaf	veg	medium	0.5	2 products
Niacinamide	supplement	medium	0.5	1 product
Nucleotides	supplement	medium	0.5	72 products
Oat Feed	carb	medium	0.5	10 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.