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Ingredient glossary

Caramel in dog food

Sugar, browned - there to make the food look meatier to you. Dogs gain nothing from it but calories.

Ingredient to avoid
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Found in 1 food

The highest-scoring foods on our directory with this ingredient on the label.

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Same family - the colour tells you the classification at a glance.

EC permitted additives (unspecified) Artificial flavours Glycerol Menadione (synthetic vitamin K3) Propylene glycol Molasses

How this score is used

Every ingredient's quality score feeds the ODF Score of every food that lists it, weighted by label position - the formula is public, down to the last penalty.

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This is label analysis, not veterinary advice - if your dog has a health condition, talk to your vet before switching foods.

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