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Pet Food Ingredients
Antelopes are novel, mushrooms are functional pet food ingredients
Both functional ingredients and novel proteins play roles when formulating pet foods, but they provide different health benefits and meet other pet owner demands.
Brand Insights
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Tailored solutions to curb indirect spending and improve cost and operating efficiencies for your pet food production.
Research Notes
Pea protein dog food kept pets healthy during yearlong study
Dog, cat and other pet owners may put aside ethical concerns if they don’t know plant-based pet foods are nutritionally balanced and healthy.
Research Notes
Study: Dogs can succeed on plant-based diet
Earth Animal touts recent research that shows properly formulated plant-based foods have several healthy benefits for dogs.
Research Notes
Dog copper-storage disease lacks clear diet, breed correlations
An analysis of samples taken from 2006 through 2022, didn’t reveal correlations among copper levels in dogs’ livers and their varied diets.
Petfood Forum
How microbiome-tailored nutrition can extend a pet's longevity
Targeted nutritional microbiome interventions will lead to better health outcomes and increased wellbeing of companion animals, said Juan Gomez-Basauri, Ph.D., who will speak on the topic at Petfood Forum in Kansas City.
Nutrition
Squid, shrimp co-products may be novel dog food proteins
The parts of the shrimp that Bubba from “Forrest Gump” didn’t use to make pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp burgers or shrimp sandwiches could be turned into a novel pet food protein source.
Research Notes
Turtle, shark, livestock among undeclared species in cat food
Undeclared animal species in pet foods may cause both health problems and ethical concerns. Researchers looked at 138 canned cat food products from 62 brands.
Pet Food Ingredients
Whole or minced mice provide same health benefits for cats
Dog and cat owners may want to provide their pets with a “biologically appropriate” diet. However, few people want to thaw a dead rat in their fridge or clean up blood and scraps of flesh after meal time.
CBD Treats for Dogs and Cats
Long-term CBD for dogs caused few health problems
After 36 weeks of CBD supplementation, none of the dogs in the study showed serious health problems. Only at the highest dosage did some of the dogs get loose stools.
News Hound
Fur babies or fur egos? Pets as extensions of the self
Pet owners likely feel better about pampering a pretend child than an extension of their own selves.
Research Notes
Swine co-products made into dog jerky treats by student
Like many livestock byproducts, swine pluck contains nutrients that would go to waste if not fed to pets. However, byproducts, or co-products, have been demonized by some pet food marketers and consumer advocates.
Insect-based Cat and Dog Food
Cat owners more accepting of unseen insect-based ingredients
In a survey, the majority of survey respondents were willing to feed cat foods and treats containing insects to their pets, but the form of the insect-based ingredients mattered.
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