Pet food ingredients, read honestly
Plain-words entries for the ingredients on real labels: what each one is, why manufacturers use it, and exactly how it moves a Bowlmark score. Every entry clears review before it publishes, and every claim carries its source.
Amino acid
Botanical
By-product
- animal digest
- animal plasma
- beef by-products
- beef trachea
- blood meal
- bone meal
- chicken by-product meal
- chicken by-products
- chicken cartilage
- hydrolyzed animal protein
- meat
- meat and animal derivatives
- meat by-products
- mechanically separated chicken
- pork by-products
- poultry by-product meal
- poultry by-products
- turkey by-product meal
Color additive
Egg & dairy
Fat & oil
Fiber
Fish
Flavoring
Fruit & vegetable
Grain
- amaranth
- barley
- barley flour
- brewers rice
- brown rice
- buckwheat
- cereals
- corn
- corn bran
- corn flour
- corn germ meal
- corn gluten meal
- corn meal
- corn starch
- ground yellow corn
- malted barley
- millet
- oat bran
- oat fiber
- oat flour
- oat groats
- oatmeal
- oats
- pearled barley
- quinoa
- rice
- rice bran
- rice flour
- rice hulls
- rice starch
- rye
- sorghum
- spelt
- teff
- triticale
- wheat
- wheat bran
- wheat flour
- wheat germ
- wheat gluten
- wheat middlings
- wheat starch
- white rice
- whole wheat
- wild rice
Humectant
Legume
- alfalfa meal
- black beans
- carob
- chickpea flour
- chickpeas
- fava bean protein
- fava beans
- green beans
- green lentils
- kidney beans
- lentils
- lupins
- navy beans
- pea fiber
- pea flour
- pea protein
- pea starch
- peanut butter
- peanut flour
- peanut hulls
- peanuts
- peas
- pinto beans
- red lentils
- soy flour
- soy protein concentrate
- soy protein isolate
- soybean hulls
- soybean meal
- soybeans
Meat
Meat meal
Mineral
Organ meat
Preservative
Probiotic
- dried bacillus coagulans fermentation product
- dried bacillus subtilis fermentation product
- dried bifidobacterium animalis fermentation product
- dried enterococcus faecium fermentation product
- dried lactobacillus acidophilus fermentation product
- dried lactobacillus casei fermentation product
- dried lactobacillus plantarum fermentation product