By Products List

Many of these ingredients appear on pet food labels under names that sound harmless or even healthy. If any of the following appear in your pet's food or treats, they are worth avoiding. Use this list alongside the What Grade Is My Kibble assessment.

By-Products (Avoid)

By-products are ingredients considered unfit for human consumption. They are nutritionally inconsistent and often sourced from parts of the animal you would never knowingly feed your pet.

Chicken By-Product Meal Poultry By-Product Meal Meat By-Products Animal By-Product Meal Fish By-Products Beet Pulp Tomato Pomace Citrus Pulp Peanut Hulls Soybean Mill Run Bakery Products / Bakery Meal Feather Meal Corn Gluten Meal Wheat Middlings / Mill Run Soy Hulls Oat Hulls Dried Potato Product

Controversial or Harmful Ingredients

These ingredients range from synthetic preservatives and artificial dyes to added sugars and unnamed animal sources. None of them belong in your pet's food.

BHA BHT Ethoxyquin TBHQ Propylene Glycol Carrageenan Sodium Nitrite / Nitrate Red 40 Yellow 5 / Yellow 6 Blue 2 Caramel Color Titanium Dioxide Menadione (Vitamin K3) Xylitol Corn Syrup / Glucose Syrup Added Sugar / Cane Molasses Soy Protein Isolate Animal Digest (unnamed) Rendered Fat (unnamed)

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