Gelatin
Also appears on labels as: collagen
Collagen from skin, bone, and connective tissue, cooked until it dissolves and sets as a gel.
Watched ingredients get highlighted on every product panel you open.
- Where it comes from
- Pork and beef processing.
- Why it's in the product
- Sets the jelly in wet food, binds soft treats, and forms capsule shells.
- Safety and toxicity
- Safe. Nutritionally it is an incomplete protein, low in tryptophan, so it pads a protein percentage more than it feeds the pet.
General reference, not veterinary advice. Dose, breed, and existing conditions change the answer, so talk to your vet before changing what your pet eats. Think we got this wrong? Tell us and we log it publicly.
Found in 12 scored products
Lowest scores first. Its presence here is not what drove those scores.
