Dog and Cat Food Nutrition: Page 35

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.

Brand Insights

Sustainability Starts with the Formula: How Smarter Formulation Is Shaping the Future of Pet Food Production

Datacor (formerly Format Solutions)

Discover how pet food manufacturers are reducing emissions and driving sustainability through ingredient innovation and eco-friendly nutrition.

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.

Nutrition

Zinc sources: A matter of choice in the petfood industry

Zinc is an essential dietary element that can be found in many natural mineral deposits. There are several forms available in the market that are used to supplement petfoods.

Pet Food Market

NutriFusion expands into petfood with nutrient-dense products

NutriFusion, a company that focuses on adding natural nutrients from fruits and vegetables into food processors’ products, initially had no plans to expand into petfood. But once they did, they saw immediate growth.

Pet Food News

Naturally Splendid moves forward with HempOmega petfood development

Naturally Splendid Enterprises has signed a research and product development service agreement with the Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development's Food Science and Technology Centre in Brooks, Alberta, Canada.

Nutrition

Marine algae may improve cognitive function in older dogs

Whole-cell, micro-algae offers the pet industry a sustainable fish oil alternative that may improve cognitive function in aging dogs.

Pet Food Ingredients

Adding a little color to petfoods—naturally

There are numerous “colors” that have been used in petfoods for decades.

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