Ingredient Dictionary

Real Ingredients

Choose an ingredient from the list on the left for a description of the ingredient's nutritional elements, how it benefits specific parts of your pet's body.

This ingredient dictionary serves as a guide for our dog & cat food products.

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INGREDIENTS

Barley

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Carbohydrate including fiber to provide energy and support digestive tract health.

Beef

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

High-quality protein and essential amino acids, fat, and trace minerals. Promotes strong muscles and skeletal system, enhances palatability and promotes healthy skin and coat.

Beef Broth

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Flavorful functional ingredient provides moisture for processing.

Beef Fat (preserved with mixed-tocopherols)

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Provides energy, fatty acids and a matrix for transport of fat-soluble vitamins.

Biotin

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

An essential B-complex vitamin. Necessary for proper fat, glucose, amino acid and energy metabolism.

Blueberry Pomace

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Wholesome, flavorful ingredient.

Brewers dried yeast

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Protein and essential amino acids. Promotes strong muscles and provides palatability.

Brewers rice

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Carbohydrate. Helps provide energy and aids in formula digestibility.

Brown rice

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Provides fiber and fatty acids. Promotes digestive tract health, provides carbohydrate that can be used for energy, and provides Linoleic Acid, an essential Omega-6 fatty acid for skin and coat.

Calcium carbonate

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Calcium, an essential mineral. Promotes strong bones and teeth.

Calcium iodate

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Iodine, an essential mineral. Essential component of Thyroid hormones.

Calcium pantothenate

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Pantothenic acid (a B-complex vitamin). Necessary for the proper utilization of carbohydrate, protein, and fat.

Calcium phosphate

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Calcium and phosphorus, essential minerals. Promotes strong bones and teeth.

Canola Meal

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Protein and essential amino acids. Helps maintain a handsome coat and healthy skin and helps support a pet's immune system.

Carrageenan

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Functional ingredient to aid in product performance, image and firmness.

Carrots

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Wholesome, flavorful ingredient.

Catfish

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

High-quality protein and essential amino acids, fat, and trace minerals. Promotes strong muscles and skeletal system, enhances palatability and promotes healthy skin and coat.

Chicken

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

High-quality protein and essential amino acids, fat, and trace minerals. Promotes strong muscles and skeletal system, enhances palatability and promotes healthy skin and coat.

Chicken Broth

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Flavorful functional ingredient provides moisture for processing.

Chicken meal

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

High-quality protein and essential amino acids, fat, and trace minerals. Promotes strong muscles and skeletal system, enhances palatability and promotes healthy skin and coat.

Choline chloride

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Choline (an essential B-complex vitamin). Necessary for proper liver and cellular metabolism.

Cod

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

High-quality protein and essential amino acids, fat, and trace minerals. Promotes strong muscles and skeletal system, enhances palatability and promotes healthy skin and coat.

Copper proteinate

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Easily absorbed, organic mineral sources of copper for your pet's health. Helps support proper hemoglobin and melanin formation, component of several blood proteins and enzyme systems.

Copper sulfate

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Copper, an essential mineral. Helps support proper hemoglobin and melanin formation, component of several blood proteins and enzyme systems.

DL-methionine

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

An essential amino acid, methionine. Helps support muscle development and maintenance.

Dried Beet Pulp

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Fiber source aids in digestive motility. Helps support digestive health and easy cleanup.

Dried Egg product

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

High-quality protein, essential amino acids, fat, and fatty acids. Supports strong muscles and skeletal system, enhances palatability and supports healthy skin and coat.

Egg Product

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

High-quality protein, essential amino acids, fat, and fatty acids. Supports strong muscles and skeletal system, enhances palatability and supports healthy skin and coat.

Ferrous sulfate

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Iron, an essential mineral. Helps support proper hemoglobin formation and oxygen transportation in the bloodstream.

Fish Broth

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Flavorful functional ingredient provides moisture for processing.

Fish oil

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Fat, omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. Helps provide energy, promotes healthy skin and coat and helps support a healthy immune system.

Folic Acid

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

An essential B-complex vitamin. Necessary for proper amino acid metabolism and for cell membrane integrity.

Gelatin

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Functional ingredient to aid in product performance, and image.

Guar Gum

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Natural thickening agent to provide viscosity to gravy.

Liver

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Vitamin A, iron, protein, and essential amino acids. Supports cell growth and healthy vision, supports proper hemoglobin production, helps support muscle development and maintenance and helps support a healthy immune system.

L-lysine monohydrochloride

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

An essential amino acid, lysine. Helps support muscle development and maintenance and helps support a healthy immune system.

Malted Barley Flour

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Flavor enhancer to promote palatability.

Manganese proteinate

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Easily absorbed, organic mineral sources of manganese for your pet's health. Necessary for proper glucose utilization and component of bone and cartilage development.

Manganese sulfate

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Manganese, an essential mineral. Necessary for proper glucose utilization.

Menadione sodium bisulfite complex

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

A source of Vitamin K (an essential fat soluble vitamin). Necessary for proper blood clotting.

Natural Flavor

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Flavor enhancer to promote palatability.

Niacin

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Niacin (B3) (an essential B-complex vitamin). Helps make up enzymes and necessary for proper carbohydrate, protein, and fat metabolism.

Ocean Whitefish

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

High-quality protein and essential amino acids, fat, and trace minerals. Promotes strong muscles and skeletal system, enhances palatability and promotes healthy skin and coat.

Pea Fiber

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Fiber source aids in digestive motility. Helps support digestive health and easy cleanup.

Pea Protein

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

A unique, plant based protein source. Helps maintain lean muscle mass and promotes healthy skin and coat.

Pearled Barley

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Carbohydrate including fiber to provide energy and support digestive tract health.

Phosphoric Acid

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Phosphorus, an essential mineral. Enhances palatability.

Potassium chloride

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Potassium, an essential mineral. Helps maintain fluid balance and helps support enzyme, muscle, and nerve functions.

Potassium Iodide

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Iodine, an essential mineral. Important component of Thyroid hormones.

Potato

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Wholesome, flavorful ingredient.

Pyridoxine hydrochloride

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Pyridoxine (B6) (an essential B-complex vitamin). Important component of enzymes for protein metabolism.

Riboflavin supplement

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Riboflavin (B2) (an essential B-complex vitamin). Necessary component of enzyme systems.

Salmon

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Protein and essential amino acids, fat, omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, calcium, phosphorus, and other minerals. Promotes strong muscles, bones, and teeth, promotes healthy skin and coat and enhances palatability.

Salt

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Sodium and chloride, essential minerals. Helps regulate proper blood pH levels, water balance and kidney functions and enhances palatability.

Shrimp

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

High-quality protein and essential amino acids, fat, and trace minerals. Promotes strong muscles and skeletal system, enhances palatability and promotes healthy skin and coat.

Sodium Caseinate

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Functional ingredient to aid in product performance, and image.

Sodium selenite

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Selenium, an essential mineral. Works with Vitamin E to maintain cell membranes.

Spinach

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Wholesome, flavorful ingredient.

Sweet Potato

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Wholesome, flavorful ingredient.

Taurine

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

An essential amino acid for cats. Promotes healthy vision and a healthy heart.

Thiamine mononitrate

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Thiamine (B1) (an essential B-complex vitamin). Important coenzyme in carbohydrate metabolism.

Tomato

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Wholesome, flavorful ingredient.

Trout

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Protein and essential amino acids, fat, omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, calcium, phosphorus, and other minerals. Promotes strong muscles, bones, and teeth, promotes healthy skin and coat and enhances palatability.

Turkey

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

High-quality protein and essential amino acids, fat, and trace minerals. Promotes strong muscles and skeletal system, enhances palatability and promotes healthy skin and coat.

Turkey Broth

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Flavorful functional ingredient provides moisture for processing.

Vitamin A supplement

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Vitamin A (an essential fat soluble vitamin). Helps support a healthy immune system and promotes healthy vision.

Vitamin B12 supplement

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Vitamin B12 (an essential B-complex vitamin). Functions as a coenzyme in carbohydrate metabolism.

Vitamin D3 supplement

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Vitamin D (an essential fat soluble vitamin). Promotes strong bones and joints.

Vitamin E supplement

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Vitamin E (an essential fat soluble vitamin). Helps support a healthy immune system and promotes skin and coat health.

Wild Rice

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Carbohydrate including fiber. Provides digestive tract health and provides carbohydrate that can be used for energy.

Zinc Proteinate

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Easily absorbed, organic mineral source of zinc for your pet's health. Necessary for cell membrane integrity and for cellular protein synthesis and carbohydrate metabolism.

Zinc Sulfate

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Zinc, an essential mineral. Necessary for cell membrane integrity and for cellular protein synthesis and carbohydrate metabolism.

Zucchini

Contributes to your pet's food by providing:

Wholesome, flavorful ingredient.