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Mono- and Dicalcium Phosphate

Our read // In our catalog

In 1 of every 29 foods we track

Share of foods that list it

3%

88 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 15. In the top five of 0 foods, so it is usually a minor ingredient.

Top five List position, heaviest first

Above the salt

52%

Listed before the salt in 52% of foods. In the rest it is under about 1% of the recipe.

Price per lb

Foods with it $2.05
All foods $3.23

Median of the cheapest bag price across 71 priced foods, 37% below the catalog. The price is the food's, not the ingredient's.

Who leans on it

100%

of the foods that list it are from Purina. 1 brand use it in total.

Who uses it

Brands, best sellers and the company it keeps

Usually listed with, share of the foods that list it

  1. Beef Fat 84%
  2. Rice 75%
  3. Whole Grain Corn 75%
  4. Whole Grain Wheat 69%
  5. Chicken 58%
  6. Soybean Meal 57%
  7. Corn Protein Meal 44%
  8. Poultry By-Product Meal 44%
  9. Corn Gluten Meal 39%
  10. Corn Germ Meal 35%
  11. Dried Egg Product 34%
  12. Barley 33%

On labels as

Other names for this

Manufacturers do not all use the same wording. These all mean the same thing.

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. Back to the wiki

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