ethylenediamine dihydriodide

What it is

An organic iodine salt (EDDI) with decades of livestock-feed history, now appearing in pet premixes. The name is the whole obstacle: chemically it's a stable iodine carrier, functionally identical in purpose to potassium iodide.

Why it's in pet food

Iodine delivery with good stability and mixing behavior. This page exists mostly so the scanner has a calm answer when the polysyllables raise an eyebrow — the same job the sodium CMC page does on the thickener shelf.

How Bowlmark scores it

Scores are deterministic math over the printed label — the rules below apply to every product identically, and nothing estimates or fills in a blank.

Neutral. The engine's deductions target adverse literatures and disclosure games, never syllable counts — a principle worth restating on exactly the ingredients that look designed to test it. Iodine facts: see its sibling pages; micrograms, thyroid, formulated totals.

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Foods that list ethylenediamine dihydriodide

No food on the shelf lists ethylenediamine dihydriodide yet. Scan a bag that does and its label joins the catalog — versioned from the day it arrives.

Sources

• NRC Nutrient Requirements of Dogs and Cats (2006)
• AAFCO Dog & Cat Food Nutrient Profiles (2016)

Related ingredients

• copper proteinate
• copper sulfate
• dicalcium phosphate
• ferrous sulfate
• iron proteinate
• magnesium oxide

Further reading

• The guaranteed analysis, decoded
• How to read a pet food label