Biotics: Science leading the way in a new era of functional ingredients

Science-driven research has always been a boon for the pet food industry, and never more so than right now. With pet owners able to find research papers online, gain education on ingredients and understand more via implementations on the human food side, pet food brands are looking to back up their claims with science. The biotics space is a particularly involved example of this, as research on both the human and animal side of things continues to evolve and hit the mainstream consciousness (e.g., the “gut-brain axis” becoming a more standard term among the nutrition-focused).