Wheat flour makes great biscuits for pets

Very little wheat is used as a starch ingredient in mainstream pet food. Today, wheat flour or milling co-products mostly find their way into rotary-molded baked biscuits or treats. This goes back to the first commercial pet products where wheat was an ingredient in the original Spratt’s Patent Meat Fibrine Dog Cakes (Fraser-Miller et al., 2021). The utility of wheat in this application is its unique protein (i.e., gluten) that provides the elasticity necessary for form and the structure needed for stability and texture.