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.
IngredientCategoryGradeBase scoreUsed in
Glucose Syrupadditivepoor-124 products
Grape Seed Mealotherpoor-13 products
Greavesmeatpoor-17 products
Greaves Mealmeatpoor-11 product
Ground Pecan Shellfibrepoor-131 products
Horseradishvegpoor-11 product
Humic Acidsupplementpoor-11 product
Hydrolysed Starchcarbpoor-158 products
Hypromelloseadditivepoor-12 products
Maize glutencarbpoor-1232 products
Meat and Animal Derivativesmeatpoor-1306 products
Milk and Milk Derivativesotherpoor-130 products
Monoglyceridesadditivepoor-13 products
Oat Husk Mealcarbpoor-12 products
Oils and Fatsoilpoor-1279 products
Olive Woodotherpoor-11 product
Organic Sunflower Seed Husksfibrepoor-11 product
Palm Oiloilpoor-12 products
Partially Hydrolysed Starchcarbpoor-15 products
Pea Starchcarbpoor-1214 products
Pea Starch Flourcarbpoor-14 products
Pentasodium Triphosphateadditivepoor-111 products
Phosphoric Acidadditivepoor-12 products
Pig Rawhideotherpoor-122 products
Powdered Cellulosefibrepoor-186 products
Propylene glycoladditivepoor-13 products
Protein Hydrolysateotherpoor-1121 products
Puffed Pig Snoutsmeatpoor-13 products
Rindotherpoor-112 products
Saltadditivepoor-1811 products
Seasoningadditivepoor-11 product
Smoked Flavouradditivepoor-142 products
Sodium Nitriteadditivepoor-11 product
Sodium selenitesupplementpoor-1154 products
Soy Proteincarbpoor-124 products
Soyacarbpoor-179 products
Soybean Mealcarbpoor-125 products
Soybean Millcarbpoor-15 products
Sucroseotherpoor-17 products
Sugarsadditivepoor-1147 products
Sunflower Mealcarbpoor-110 products
Syrupadditivepoor-18 products
Tetrasodium Pyrophosphateadditivepoor-14 products
Titanium dioxideadditivepoor-11 product
Unspecified Animal Fats and Oilsoilpoor-1254 products
Vegetable By-Productsotherpoor-1367 products
Vegetable protein extractscarbpoor-1188 products
Wheatcarbpoor-1397 products
Wheat Glutencarbpoor-153 products
Wheat feedcarbpoor-113 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.