Ingredient file // Named animal protein
Chicken Giblets
Include any edible by-products such as the gizzard, lungs, kidneys, heart, spleen, liver, ovaries, and other. While these items don’t sound particularly appetizing to us as humans, wild dogs have eaten and benefitted from all parts of the animal for years!
Our read // In our catalog
In 1 of every 801 foods we track
Share of foods that list it
<1%
4 of the 3,204 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 3.5. In the top five of 3 foods, so it is usually a main ingredient.
Above the salt
Almost always listed before the salt, so there is more of it than a pinch.
Price per lb
Median of the cheapest bag price across 4 priced foods, 46% above 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 Orijen. 1 brand use it in total.
What it is
Why it turns up in dog food
- Combines the taurine and CoQ10 of heart, the vitamin A and iron of liver, and the lean protein of gizzard.
Who uses it
Brands, best sellers and the company it keeps
Top brands, by foods that list it
Foods that list it / all the brand's recipes we track.
Amazon best sellers that list it
Rank on Amazon's dog food best seller list, checked October 2026.
Usually listed with, share of the foods that list it
- Chicken 100%
- Liver 75%
- Whole Herring 75%
- Dehydrated Chicken 75%
- Turkey 75%
- Oat Groats 50%
- Millet 50%
- Eggs 50%
- Whole Whiting 50%
- Salmon 50%
- Dehydrated Turkey 50%
- Cod 25%
On the shelf
Foods that list Chicken Giblets
4 foods in our catalog list it, highest on the label first.
On labels as
Other names for this
Manufacturers do not all use the same wording. These all mean the same thing.