sardine oil

What it is

Sardine oil is oil from sardines — small forage fish that accumulate little mercury and deliver concentrated EPA and DHA. It appears in premium formulas and standalone omega supplements alike.

Why it's in pet food

Same job as every marine oil — skin, coat, joints, brain — from one of the cleanest possible sources. The species name is doing real transparency work on the label.

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.

Sardine oil carries no flag today: not an unnamed-fish term, and not on the whole-foods bonus list (salmon, menhaden, and krill oils are). No deduction, no bonus — and if the advisor-tuned term lists change, this page changes with the rule, never ahead of it.

Read the full methodology

Foods that list sardine oil

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

Sources

• WSAVA Global Nutrition Committee — Selecting a pet food
• ACVN — omega-3 fatty acids in joint support

Related ingredients

• poultry fat
• safflower oil
• salmon oil
• soybean oil
• sunflower oil
• vegetable oil

Further reading

• Calories on the label: kcal, ME and fair comparisons
• Storing pet food so it stays the food you bought