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
Amaranth Flour	carb	good	0.8	8 products
Aronia Berries	veg	good	0.8	18 products
Bacillus Subtilis	supplement	good	0.8	16 products
Bacillus Subtilis Fermentation Product	supplement	good	0.8	32 products
Beef Throat	meat	good	0.8	3 products
Bifidobacterium Longum	supplement	good	0.8	27 products
Bifidobacterium bifidum	supplement	good	0.8	8 products
Biotin	supplement	good	0.8	142 products
Bromelain	supplement	good	0.8	10 products
Bull Pizzle	meat	good	0.8	24 products
Calcium butyrate	supplement	good	0.8	1 product
Cantaloupe Melon	veg	good	0.8	7 products
Carrot Juice	veg	good	0.8	3 products
Cashew Nuts	other	good	0.8	2 products
Celery Root	veg	good	0.8	3 products
Cherry Extract	other	good	0.8	36 products
Chlorella	supplement	good	0.8	11 products
Choline	supplement	good	0.8	257 products
Cistus Herb	supplement	good	0.8	2 products
Cobalt Amino Acid Chelate	mineral	good	0.8	5 products
Coenzyme Q10	supplement	good	0.8	2 products
Copper proteinate	supplement	good	0.8	193 products
Cordyceps Mushroom	supplement	good	0.8	3 products
Dandelion Leaves	veg	good	0.8	57 products
Dehydrated Anchovy	meat	good	0.8	4 products
Dehydrated Fish Proteins	meat	good	0.8	14 products
Dehydrated Horse Protein	meat	good	0.8	1 product
Dehydrated Pork Protein	meat	good	0.8	97 products
Dehydrated Poultry Proteins	meat	good	0.8	305 products
Dehydrated Seabass Protein	meat	good	0.8	1 product
Dehydrated Seabream	meat	good	0.8	2 products
Dehydrated anchoveta	meat	good	0.8	3 products
Dehydrated turkey protein	meat	good	0.8	314 products
Dried Apples	fruit	good	0.8	59 products
Dried Aspergillus Niger Fermentation Extract	supplement	good	0.8	1 product
Dried Aspergillus Niger Fermentation Product	supplement	good	0.8	1 product
Dried Aspergillus Oryzae Fermentation Product	supplement	good	0.8	5 products
Dried Bacillus Licheniformis Fermentation Product	supplement	good	0.8	6 products
Dried Bacillus amyloliquefaciens fermentation product	supplement	good	0.8	15 products
Dried Bacillus coagulans fermentation product	supplement	good	0.8	69 products
Dried Bifidobacterium Bifidum Fermentation Product	supplement	good	0.8	3 products
Dried Bifidobacterium Thermophilum Fermentation Product	supplement	good	0.8	1 product
Dried Duck Protein	meat	good	0.8	70 products
Dried Lactobacillus lactis Fermentation Product	supplement	good	0.8	5 products
Dried Lamb Protein	meat	good	0.8	117 products
Dried Marigold	veg	good	0.8	76 products
Dried Pediococcus Acidilactici Fermentation Product	supplement	good	0.8	20 products
Dried Pollack	meat	good	0.8	1 product
Dried Sea Bream	meat	good	0.8	7 products
Dried Trichoderma Longibrachiatum Fermentation Extract	supplement	good	0.8	1 product

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.