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Human cuisine trends with pet food potential in 2023

Human food writers and industry analysts have made their predictions for the trends that will influence cuisine in 2023. Some of these food fashions have potential to migrate into pet food formulations.

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Brand Insights

Plasma: A Multi-Faceted Ingredient Supporting Health, Formula Functionality, and Nutrition in Pet Food

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Discover how plasma protein supports pet health, boosts palatability, and improves pet food functionality and processing performance in modern formulations.

Plasma: A Multi-Faceted Ingredient Supporting Health, Formula Functionality, and Nutrition in Pet Food

Pet Food Market

Cancer formulation pet foods nourish sick dogs, cats

General nutrition goals for pets with cancer include preserving lean muscle, minimizing metabolic disturbances and GI intolerance to food, and optimizing quality of life.

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Mycotoxin in pet food likely caused 2021 UK cat diseases

“The diets associated with the pancytopenia outbreak in cats in the United Kingdom all contained potatoes flakes which, in this scenario, are thought to have been the likely source of mycotoxin,” Royal Veterinary College researchers wrote.

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Pet Food Ingredients

Digestibility of mealworms as pet food ingredients

Scientists measured protein quality and amino acid composition and digestibility of four varieties of mealworm products.

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Omnivore, vegan pet owners differ on cell-cultured pet food

Cell-cultured pet food ingredients may appeal to certain pet owners more than others.

Meat cultured in laboratory conditions from stem cells.

FDA ends DCM updates; No causality data with dog foods

The FDA received far fewer reports of DCM cases from 2020 to 2022 compared to the preceding two years. In total, the FDA received 1,382 reports of DCM from Jan. 1, 2014 to Nov. 1, 2022.

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By-products can be called upcycled pet food ingredients

Rendering by-products into pet food ingredients reduces food waste and makes more efficient use of the resources needed to produce human foods. Rebranding these products as upcycled could aid acceptance by pet owners.

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Pet Food Market

Maneli Pets of South Africa recovers to pre-COVID revenues

After the pandemic greatly disrupted its pet food export business, Maneli Pets pivoted to finding customers in its native South Africa, in addition to exporting.

South Africa’s novel proteins, known the world over, include free-range ostrich, venison, rabbits and warthogs – the ones used by Maneli Pets.

Freeze dried pet foods amino acids digestibility tested

Researchers tested three formats of freeze-dried dog foods: traditional freeze-dried nuggets, low-temperature freeze-dried nuggets and a hybrid freeze-dried nugget.

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Pet Food Market

New pet food ingredient challenges if US expands biofuels

The pet food ingredient supply, already disrupted by the pandemic, is under further challenge by the U.S. government’s biofuel mandates and incentives.

Products from commodity crops like soybeans that are used in pet food and human food may be diverted into increased biofuel production in the U.S.

Interest in alternative proteins grows in pet food

Learn about the current top alternative protein sources in pet food formulations, including yeast, insect protein, eggs and cell-based meat options.

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Protein quality: A quantitative approach

Learn about the challenges in determining quality protein from a veterinarian’s perspective, as well as what better education could do for pet owners and their animals.

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