Dog and Cat Food Nutrition

Ingredient Issues

Water: the essential nutrient with food

Pet owners may not be aware of the full water needs of their animals, or how to meet them.

Pet Food Palatability

Sustainable protein palatability depends on pet food processing, formulation

Alternative proteins need not rely solely on environmental credentials. With careful formulation and processing, they can also deliver the sensory qualities that keep pets coming back to the bowl.

Pet Food News

Purina, Senior Dog Veterinary Society partner on nutrition

Collaboration will provide nutrition education and training resources to veterinary professionals caring for aging dogs.

Dog and Cat Food Nutrition

Q&A Science Dive: Advanced glycation end-product formation in wet, dry and fresh cat food

What drives advanced glycation end-product (AGE) formation and what should formulators take away from research on AGEs?

Pet Food Safety

Wet cat food held highest levels of certain potentially unhealthy chemicals

Concentrations of advanced glycation end-products in mildly cooked (fresh) and extruded dry diets often did not differ significantly in an experiment.

Adventures in Pet Food

Vets and MDs share lack of nutrition knowledge

A lack of nutrition education and training among health care professionals seems to be another close parallel between human food and pet food.

Dog and Cat Food Nutrition

Survey: Protein source out-ranks amount for dog food purchases

The research examined purchasing choices made by dog owners and how their perceptions of protein quality and quantity informed their decisions.

Pet Food Ingredients

Goat may be GOAT protein for climate change adapted pet food

As the world warms and farmland degrades, goats could become the Greatest Of All Time mammalian protein source.

Pet Food Ingredients

Shiitake, black soldier fly meals compared as alternative dog food ingredients

A study compared digestibility and nutritional characteristics of novel ingredients with conventional meat and bone meal.

Research Notes

10 Q&As about pet food for aging dogs and cats

Scientists observed that nutritional recommendations remain largely based on research conducted in younger animals.

Research Notes

Whole soybeans allowed higher fat in dog kibble extrusion than oil

Researchers compared internal fat supplied by whole soybeans with external fat added as liquid soybean oil during the extrusion of dry dog food.

Research Notes

Wheat beat oats and rye in dog food, contrary to human results

Although oats and rye are often associated with health benefits in people, those advantages were not evident in a study of healthy adult dogs.

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