Table 5. Animal-based ingredient categories used within US dog and cat food from 2018–2019 (tons).

Data source: [49].

Ingredient group	HC or NHC	Dog food	%	Cat food	%	Dog + Cat food	%
Animal meal	NHC	1,193,490	46.3%	365,001	37.6%	1,558,491	43.9%
’Meat’ (incl. poultry, organ meats, but excl. fish)	HC	809,473	31.4%	238,895	24.6%	1,048,368	29.5%
Fats & oils	HC	264,317	10.3%	57,786	6.0%	322,103	9.1%
By-products	NHC	133,625	5.2%	113,744	11.7%	247,370	7.0%
Broth	HC	75,283	2.9%	80,811	8.3%	156,094	4.4%
Fishery ingredients	HC	38,966	1.5%	93,285	9.6%	132,251	3.7%
Other	NHC	27,861	1.1%	14,399	1.5%	42,260	1.2%
Dairy and eggs	HC	34,831	1.4%	6,639	0.7%	41,470	1.2%
Totals		2,577,847	100.0%	970,560	100.0%	3,548,407	100.0%

Note: All ingredient groups were human-consumable (HC) other than by-products, animal meal and ‘other’ (digest flavourant and animal plasma). These were non-human consumable (NHC).