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Ingredient glossary

Vegetable oil (unspecified) in dog food

Oil from an unnamed plant. Usually cheap and heavy on omega-6, which most dog foods already have too much of relative to omega-3.

Acceptable - watch the amount
94foods list it on the label

Found in 94 foods

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

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

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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