Water
Also appears on labels as: purified water, water sufficient for processing, deionized water, filter water, aqua, filtered water
Water, purified to a processing standard.
Watched ingredients get highlighted on every product panel you open.
- Where it comes from
- Municipal supply, filtered on site.
- Why it's in the product
- The base of every shampoo and the bulk of every can of wet food. Water sufficient for processing is the regulatory phrase for water added during manufacture.
- Safety and toxicity
- None. It is water.
- Interactions and who should be careful
- On a wet food panel, water sitting first tells you how much of what you are paying for by weight is liquid. Which is not automatically bad, since moisture intake matters, particularly for cats.
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 153 scored products
Lowest scores first. Its presence here is not what drove those scores.
129 more scored products list this ingredient. Showing the 24 lowest-scoring.