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
Vegetable Gum	additive	medium	0.4	4 products
Vegetable Medley	veg	medium	0.4	12 products
Zeolite	mineral	medium	0.4	1 product
Maltodextrin	carb	poor	0.3	51 products
Menadione sodium bisulfite complex	supplement	poor	0.3	13 products
Potato starch	carb	poor	0.3	374 products
Wheatfeed pellets	carb	poor	0.3	17 products
Connective tissue	meat	poor	0.2	4 products
Magnesium stearate	additive	poor	0.2	23 products
Mono And Diglycerides	additive	poor	0.2	1 product
Mono And Diglycerides Of Palmitic And Stearic Acids Esterified With Citric Acid	additive	poor	0.2	1 product
Sodium carbonate	additive	poor	0.2	8 products
Sodium phosphate	additive	poor	0.2	49 products
Sorbic acid	additive	poor	0.2	2 products
Sorbitol	additive	poor	0.2	17 products
Vinegar	additive	poor	0.2	60 products
Seeds	veg	poor	0	72 products
Water	other	Ungraded	0	193 products
Plant Extracts	additive	poor	-0.2	4 products
Food Acid	additive	poor	-0.3	7 products
Palm Kernel Oil	oil	poor	-0.5	4 products
Avocado	veg	poor	-0.6	2 products
Carmine	additive	poor	-0.6	1 product
Sodium Tripolyphosphate	additive	poor	-0.6	41 products
Cow Hoof	other	poor	-0.7	5 products
Soy Sauce	additive	poor	-0.7	1 product
Jaggery	carb	poor	-0.8	4 products
Artificial colourings	additive	poor	-1	9 products
Artificial flavourings	additive	poor	-1	30 products
Blackcurrant Jelly	other	poor	-1	5 products
Blood Meal	meat	poor	-1	10 products
Caramel Colour	additive	poor	-1	43 products
Carrageenan	additive	poor	-1	11 products
Cassia gum	additive	poor	-1	5 products
Cereals	carb	poor	-1	302 products
Cow Hooves	other	poor	-1	2 products
D-Xylose	additive	poor	-1	1 product
Dextrin	carb	poor	-1	1 product
Dextrose	carb	poor	-1	51 products
Digest	meat	poor	-1	217 products
Digest / Hydrolysed Animal Proteins	meat	poor	-1	6 products
Dried Subcutaneous Tissue	meat	poor	-1	11 products
EC permitted additives	additive	poor	-1	4 products
Erythritol	additive	poor	-1	6 products
Eucalyptus	supplement	poor	-1	7 products
Fish And Fish By-Products	meat	poor	-1	2 products
Fish and fish derivatives	meat	poor	-1	12 products
Flavor	additive	poor	-1	230 products
Gelling agents and thickeners	additive	poor	-1	12 products
Glucose	carb	poor	-1	31 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.