Where animal fat sits in the Sniff System
animal fat carries a caution flag in the Sniff System. The methodology does not categorically reject it, but does penalize products where it appears in problematic concentrations, problematic combinations, or without offsetting positive ingredients.
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Similar ingredients in the catalog
Sniff's semantic graph clusters these ingredients near animal fat by formulation profile. Each links to its own ingredient page.