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Sustainability for pet food poses benefits and challenges

From educating pet owners to making a business case to re-aligning labor and supply chains, achieving sustainability in pet food has its challenges.

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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

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Pet food extrusion focuses on precision

As the core processing step for pet food production, extrusion plays an important role, however it doesn’t make sense to focus exclusively on extrusion if precision material handling is not achieved in each step along the way from grinding to packaging.

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Mussels in pet food help climate, wildlife and communities

In addition to the social and environmental sustainability aspects, mussels provide the important omega-3 fatty acids, DHA and EPA, which support dog and cat brains, hearts and other aspects of health.

Research aims at pet treats with upcycled meat ingredients

Participants in a pet food seminar, Petsure Imaginarium, learned about research using meat co-products in pet treats, conducted by Auburn University students.

During the Petsure Imaginarium seminar at Auburn University, participants made pet treats with meat co-products, guided by students researching the concept.

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Top 2023 human food trends: Value is key for pet food, too

An annual top 10 list of human food trends addresses areas also affecting pet food, including consumers seeking value and affordable nutrition and health.

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Animal food additives: Missing choices for US companion animal diets

Learn about the limitations on U.S. pet food manufacturers due to current feed additive policies, and what might be done to update them to match the rest of the world.

DCM fear lingers as vets say grain-free pet food unhealthy

Although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has largely abandoned their investigation into correlations among certain dog foods and canine dilated cardiomyopathy, dog food buyers still make purchasing decisions influenced by the investigation.

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Most influential pet food marketing claim: no by-products

In the 2021 Association for Pet Obesity Prevention annual survey, pet owners shared which marketing claims most influenced their decisions to purchase specific dog, cat and other pet foods.

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Reptile food ahead on whole-prey, fresh, frozen trends

Whole prey diets are passé for reptile pets. Fresh, frozen snake food has been de rigueur for decades. Insect-based pet food is nothing new to owners of lizards.

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Skin microbiome differs after kibble or fresh dog food

Microbe diversity was higher after dogs were fed a fresh diet compared to after kibble.

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Wood-eating yeast in cat food highly palatable, digestible

Raising fungus as pet food ingredients on otherwise discarded material reduces the environmental impact of companion animal nutrition. For example, torula yeast (Cyberlindnera jadinii) feed on woody biomass left as waste or residues from making wood products.

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Fresh meat kibble higher in amino acids than meat meals

According to results of an in vitro experiment, the fresh chicken meat formulation held the highest concentration for most essential amino acids and branched-chain amino acids, the lack of which can cause health problems for pets.

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