Oatmeal and Oats

Oatmeal and Oats appears on the labels of 43 of the 244 recipes we have read and scored (18 percent of the database), in label forms including Oatmeal, Oat Meal, oat groats, oats, oat meal.

What it is

Oats milled or rolled for cooking. A whole grain rich in soluble beta glucan fibre.

Why makers use it

Slow, steady energy and gut friendly fibre; a common base in grain inclusive and sensitive stomach recipes.

What to watch for

Oats are gluten free by nature, though shared milling lines can carry wheat traces, a detail that matters only for the rare truly wheat sensitive dog.

Highest scoring recipes that carry it

The full database, filterable by brand, format, life stage and grains, is the reviews index; the food finder answers it by the proteins a dog must avoid.

Often on the same panels

Vitamin Supplements (the Vitamin Pack), Mixed Tocopherols, Selenium Yeast and Sodium Selenite, Salt. The full dictionary is the ingredient index.