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Salmon: nutrient-rich petfood ingredient

Salmon, the supposed “last wild food” (Greenberg, 2010), has become very popular in petfoods. This may simply be marketing; however, there is some nutritional credence to the hype.

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The 2 AM Formula Crisis: Why Pet Food Professionals Are Burning Out

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What keeps pet food professionals up at 2 AM? It’s not just Salmonella, ingredient shortages, or missed deliveries. It’s the rising pressure from a new generation of pet owners who expect perfection and demand it fast.

The 2 AM Formula Crisis: Why Pet Food Professionals Are Burning Out

Protein from potatoes?

The terms potato and protein don't often come up in the same sentence--probably because we think of potatoes solely as a starch source. But in our ever-expanding search for useful ingredients in the petfood industry, potato protein, a concentrated extract from the potato tuber, has turned up in several specialty petfoods in the last couple of years.

Has the time for DDGS arrived?

The production of ethanol has meant many things to the petfood industry

Textured vegetable protein: all about appearance

Textured vegetable protein (TVP), the meat extender we loved to ridicule in our school lunches, may be more prevalent in petfood than many realize. It isn't being used to stretch the meat budget or even to supplement meat protein. Instead, the most common application for TVP in petfoods is cosmetic. It makes for a great visual effect in canned foods, making them look more like real meat.

A TVP 'meat piece' does a better job of distinguishing itself as a 'meat chunk' than an actual chunk of chopped or reformed meat.

Whey your protein options

It is becoming increasingly common to find petfoods that contain whey, a milk protein, as a prominent ingredient on their labels

Wheat gluten

The contamination and mislabeling of this ingredient has affected almost every corner of the petfood industry

Chicken first: marketing ploy or quality enhancement?

Chicken as the first ingredient on the ingredient panel of a dry extruded kibble has become more commonplace in the past several years

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Turkey (by-product) meal

Does this ingredient warrant its own identity?

Meat and bone meal

Is this ingredient underestimated or overcriticized?

Liver

Is it delectable or disgusting?

Corn gluten meal

In 2002, much of the 1.35 million tons of corn gluten meal was consumed by the livestock market. However, a fair amount was used in petfood.

Egg not such a simple ingredient for pet food

There is nothing simpler and better understood than the egg. Right? Well, egg (product) may be a common ingredient in dog and cat foods, but it’s far from “simple” and frankly may not be all that well understood.

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