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PetPlate launches metaverse site promoting dog food, supplements

The virtual dog park game involves finding PetPlate products to give to computer-generated dogs in order to win prizes.

Metaverse Dog Park

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Pet food inflation affects lower-income owners in Mexico

Though pet owners can spend less at a time buying dry pet food in bulk, as an antidote to high inflation, pet food sold that way is more expensive overall.

More than half a million mom-and-pop pet stores in Mexico buy pet food in bulk to resell in plastic bags of one-half, one or two kilos.

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Vafo Group expands pet food production and acquisitions

Vafo Group, a Czech pet food company, is expanding via production investments and a new partnership with Swedish pet food business Lupus Foder.

3 tips for advancing insect-based pet food

Scientists synthesized information on insects in dog and cat food, then developed recommendations to advance insect-based ingredients.

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Nutritional research on minimally processed pet food diets

While these diets have gained popularity, there is still much the industry needs to understand.

Hiperbaric Freeze Dried Kibbles

By-product grind size didn’t affect dog food digestibility

Particle size may not affect protein or fat digestibility in poultry by-product meals used as dog food ingredients. Likewise, by-product meal particle size doesn’t seem to affect fecal quality or palatability.

(Photo by Andrea Gantz)

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Dog, cat food brand importance down, spending up 2018-2022

Perhaps because of the pandemic and generational attitudes, the importance of brand names to pet food owners declined during the past few years.

Pet food labeling continues to evolve in a quest to simplify the consumer experience in the pet aisle. | (SDI Productions | iStock.com)

9 novel proteins in dog, cat food purchased in 2022

Some novel proteins in dog and cat food were purchased more frequently than others in 2022.

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Mixed 2022 results for 3 Latin American pet food leaders

In 2022, the market performance of pet food in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico varied by country due to a number of factors, including inflation levels.

A tourist's dog sits outside a church in Bernal, Queretaro, Mexico. | (Quasarphoto | BigStock.com)

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13 most purchased cat, dog food attributes in 2022

Some of the most purchased pet food attributes related to environmental concerns and ingredient quality.

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Cat treat to include cell-cultured meat of vulnerable fish

When cell-cultured meat replaces wild-caught fish from vulnerable species, the technology gains a conservation edge.

Red snapper fish

Live yeast probiotics aid dog digestion after diet change

Researchers evaluated the effects of yeast probiotics on diet digestibility, fermentative metabolites, and fecal microbiota on dogs following a change in diet.

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