Ingredient file // Ingredient
Lysine
An essential amino acid that dogs must obtain from food.
Our read // In our catalog
In 1 of every 2595 foods we track
Share of foods that list it
0%
1 of the 2,595 foods with an ingredient list on file, from 1 brand. All dry dog food.
Each square is 1% of the catalog
Where it sits on the label
Median position 18. In the top five of 0 foods, so it is usually a minor ingredient.
0
1st
0
2-3
0
4-5
0
6-10
1
11-20
0
21+
Top five
List position, heaviest first
Above the salt
Usually listed after the salt, which caps it at roughly 1% of the recipe in 100% of foods.
Who leans on it
100%
of the foods that list it are from Wysong. 1 brand use it in total.
What it is
Why it turns up in dog food
- Needed for growth, tissue repair and collagen formation. Often the limiting amino acid in grain-heavy recipes.
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
- Brown Rice 100%
- Corn 100%
- Extruded Soybeans 100%
- Pea Protein 100%
- Potato Protein 100%
- Soybean Oil 100%
- Flaxseed 100%
- Peas 100%
- Dicalcium Phosphate 100%
An ingredient on its own tells you very little.
What matters is how much of it there is and where it sits in the list. That is why we weigh
the top five rather than reacting to any single name further down.
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