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Legume seed oligosaccharides: How much is just right in dog and cat diets?

Legume seed oligosaccharides need to be limited in pet diets to avoid issues with digestion and elimination.

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Demand for Sustainable Pet Food Ingredients Remains Strong

Kemin Industries

With pet health and nutrition at the forefront of pet parents' minds, pet food manufacturers and ingredient suppliers must continue to put sustainability at the forefront of their innovations.

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Soybean meal: A quality ingredient with a lot of critics

Despite claims to the contrary, soybean meal remains a consistent, quality, sustainable and nutritious part of value-minded pet foods.

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Beans: Where are they in dog and cat foods?

Beans are popular in human foods but conspicuously absent in grain-free pet foods.

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Soybean hulls: filler or quality fiber source for dogs and cats?

Soybean hulls are a good source of insoluble fiber and cellulose for the dog and cat diet.

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Psyllium seed husks: fiber source for dog and cat diets?

Psyllium seed husks may have a short-term benefit to dog and cat regularity, but long term benefits have not been fully described.

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Could tree nuts be a novel ingredient for pets?

Little research exists on the possibility, but nuts’ nutritional potential might be worth a look for the next generation of pet foods.

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Citrus pulp: An alternative pet food fiber source?

An alternative to beet pulp that has a great deal of research support and could be a good candidate is citrus pulp, but for some reason it seems to be virtually absent from pet food.

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Pea fiber: a functional petfood ingredient

Pea fiber can be found in an increasing number of petfoods, especially in the premium, holistic and alternative format products. This ingredient is relatively new to petfoods and may be a strategic addition to counteract a growing consumer discontent with beet pulp and an absolute resistance to any of the functional fibers derived from wheat (e.g., bran), corn (corn bran) or soy (soyhulls)—all commonly perceived as cheap fillers. While this impression about the functional utility of these standard fibers is a long way from the truth, it certainly underscores that consumer perception rules the day.

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Peas in petfood

As petfood companies and pet owners continue to explore a broader range of ingredient options, the lowly pea (Pisum sativum) has been gaining in popularity. Not to be confused with the fresh or succulent green pea, the type that is being used in an ever widening array of applications is dried peas.

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Pulses: new ingredients for petfoods?

In the search for new, high quality, raw material sources with consumer appeal and a solid nutritional pedigree, pulses are one class of ingredient that the petfood industry has all but completely overlooked. Is that because of limited availability, poor acceptability by the pet, misperceptions about acceptable ingredients for pets or some other intrinsic nutritional or health issue?

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Functional fiber with color

According to the US Department of Agriculture, tomatoes are the second most popular vegetable crop behind potatoes, with an annual average per capita consumption of 71 pounds going into juice, sauce and paste. The backstory is that 10-30% of this is seeds, skin and pulp, with no ready market in the human food aisle. This translates into an estimated 750,000 metric tons of dried tomato pomace potentially available to pet and livestock feed markets.

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Cheap filler or nutritious fiber?

Wheat bran and middlings are two closely related by-products from wheat flour milling that have traditionally been considered laxatives for people or feed for livestock. Use of wheat bran and middlings in petfood emerged from positive performance in feed applications and their relatively low cost when teamed with commodity ingredients like meat and bone meal, corn and soybean meal in economy or value brands.

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