For the systematic coding system for ingredients, we divided the ingredients into the following categories and each category is assigned a 5 digital numbers: fisheries and aquatic products (10000), terrestrial animal products (20000), plant and plant by-products (30000), single cell protein (40000), oil and fat (50000), micronutrients and premixes (60000), other feed additives (70000).
| Category | Sub-category | Code |
|---|---|---|
| Fisheries and aquatic products | Fish meal | 10000 |
| Fish solubles | 11000 | |
| Fish silage | 12000 | |
| Other fish by-products | 13000 | |
| Crustacean meal | 14000 | |
| Mollusk meals | 15000 | |
| Misc. marine organisms | 16000 | |
| Undefined | 17000 | |
| Other aquatic products | 18000 | |
| Terrestrial animal products | Blood meal | 20000 |
| Feather meal | 21000 | |
| Meat and bone meal | 22000 | |
| Poultry by-product meal | 23000 | |
| Dairy product | 24000 | |
| Extracted animal proteins | 25000 | |
| Eggs product | 26000 | |
| Insect and invertebrate meals | 27000 | |
| Other animal product | 28000 | |
| Plant and plant by-products | Plant and plant by-products | 30000 |
| Single cell protein | Yeast and yeast products | 40000 |
| Algal meal and derivatives | 41000 | |
| Bacterial biomass and derivatives | 42000 | |
| Undefined | 43000 | |
| Oil and fat | Fish and aquatic animal oil | 50000 |
| Terrestrial animal fats and oils | 51000 | |
| Vegetable oils | 52000 | |
| Greases and animal/vegetable blends | 53000 | |
| Phospholipids and derivatives | 54000 | |
| Cholesterol and sterols | 55000 | |
| Miscellaneous oils and fats | 56000 | |
| Undefined | 57000 | |
| Micronutrients and premixes | Vitamins and vitamin premixes | 60000 |
| Amino acids and amino acids premix | 61000 | |
| Minerals and mineral premixes | 62000 | |
| Pigments and carotenoids | 63000 | |
| Nucleotides and related compounds | 64000 | |
| Misc. micronutrients and compounds | 67000 | |
| Undefined | 68000 | |
| Additives | Markers and tracers | 70000 |
| Binders | 71000 | |
| Attractant | 72000 | |
| Feed processing/conditioning agents | 73000 | |
| Enzymes | 74000 | |
| Mold inhibitor | 75000 | |
| Prebiotics and Probiotics | 76000 | |
| Antioxidants | 77000 | |
| Misc. additives | 78000 | |
| Undefined | 79000 |