Ingredient file
Vitamin D
Printed as “Vitamin D Supplement” on some labels. Same ingredient.
A fat-soluble vitamin that dogs must get from food, since they cannot make useful amounts in their skin.
Our read // In our catalog
In 1 of every 173 foods we track
Share of foods that list it
1%
15 of the 2,595 foods with an ingredient list on file, from 4 brands. All dry dog food.
Each square is 1% of the catalog
Where it sits on the label
Median position 45. In the top five of 0 foods, so it is usually a minor ingredient.
Above the salt
Usually listed after the salt, which caps it at roughly 1% of the recipe in 100% of foods.
Price per lb
Median of the cheapest bag price across 13 priced foods, 11% below the catalog. The price is the food's, not the ingredient's.
Who leans on it
40%
of the foods that list it are from Artemis. 4 brands use it in total.
What it is
Why it turns up in dog food
- Allows calcium and phosphorus to be absorbed and laid down in bone. Required in carefully controlled amounts.
Who uses it
Brands, best sellers and the company it keeps
Top brands, by foods that list it
Usually listed with, share of the foods that list it
- Peas 73%
- Pea Flour 60%
- Flaxseed 40%
- Chicken Meal 33%
- Turkey 33%
- Egg Product 33%
- Garbanzo Beans 33%
- Lentils 33%
- Tomato Pomace 33%
- Natural Flavor 33%
- Chicken 27%
- Duck Meal 27%
On labels as
Other names for this
Manufacturers do not all use the same wording. These all mean the same thing.