Dog and Cat Food Nutrition: Page 34

Pet Food Market

Emerging consumer trends in the pet food industry

Pet products with a focus on nutrition and quality are big winners in 2016 consumer awards.

Nutrition

Diversifying methionine choices in pet food formulations

DL-methionine and methionine hydroxy analogue are different molecules and are absorbed differently by the animal. In the end, however, both molecules are efficiently and completely converted to L-methionine for use by the animal.

Market Trends and Reports

Pet dental health in the pet food industry

Increasing consumer education continues to expand the dental health subset of pet products.

Pet Food News

Study: Fish-flavored cat food may contribute to hyperthyroidism

A new study in ACS’ journal Environmental Science & Technology suggests that fish-flavored cat food could be among the culprits contributing to the higher number of cats diagnosed with hyperthyroidism.

Nutrition

Focus on meat puts dog food head to head with human food

Some dog owners and pet food companies fervently believe dogs are carnivores and need high levels of meat. Is this approach to feeding dogs sustainable?

Nutrition

Controlling pet gut health using specialty feed ingredients

The gut is more than a place for digestion—it is a major point of contact for the immune system, stimulating correct responses for the control of pathogens from the environment that have been consumed. In dogs, their fondness for scavenging material can make them more vulnerable to exposure to disease-causing bacteria (which can then colonize the gut wall, leading to diarrhea and flatulence), but pets also love to go where their owners would prefer they don’t. There are now several products available that have been developed specifically to prevent these problems.

Pet Food Ingredients

Antioxidant trends in pet food

Antioxidants serve vital functions in pet food formulation. They can enhance health benefits in formulas in the forms of various vitamins, and they provide stability and extended shelf life to the finished pet food product.

Pet Food Ingredients

Premix trends in the pet food industry

The trends of the human food industry have inarguably become solid indicators for coming trends in the pet food industry. As people turn their focus to the origins of the ingredients in their food, the quality, traceability and overall safety of those elements have become key indicators of product success.

Nutrition

A comparison of domestic cat bitter receptors with their human orthologs

The response profiles of the cat bitter receptors Tas2r38 and Tas2r43 are distinct from those of their orthologous human receptors.

Nutrition

Biotin: Is extra beneficial for pets’ skin and coat?

Biotin is a water-soluble B vitamin identified as a metabolic requirement for cats, dogs and other companion animals; however, its need in the diet may be conditional.

Market Trends and Reports

PetsPrefer adds soft chew supplements to product line

The PetsPrefer line of products for dogs and cats now includes soft chew supplements for cats and several new soft chews for dogs to join the original six formulations.

Nutrition

Superfoods as petfood ingredients

The petfood industry is seeing a clear trend of interest in specialty petfood ingredients. Even as the standard petfood market slows, the functional, nutrition-focused, lifestage-specific, customized premium and superpremium segments are steaming ahead. One of the side effects of this consumer shift is an increased look at so-called superfoods and their use in petfood formulas.

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