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Sweet potato bred for natural pet food colorant

Pet food colorants may influence people more than dogs or cats, and as such colorants play a role in positioning a natural pet food product.

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AAFCO Mid-Year Meeting: Pet food ingredient updates

AAFCO's Ingredient Definitions Committee covered a lot of ground during the virtual meeting held in January, including discussions on black soldier fly larvae, hemp and "human grade."

AAFCO’s Ingredient Definitions Committee had plenty to discuss at the Mid-Year Meeting. | (Eva Blanco I iStock.com)

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Why plant-based pet foods continue to sprout up

Stemming from growing interest in human foods, a focus on plants in pet foods continues to increase, even as barriers remain and more research is needed.

Plants are becoming a more significant contributor to pet food formulations. | (PPAMPicture | iStock.com)

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Plant-based pet food is a trend picking up speed

Pet owners continue to want their pets’ food to reflect their own as they increasingly go plant-based, increasing demand for pets as well.

Plant-based pet food is a rising trend, with health and sustainability among the top driving forces. | (Courtesy Petaluma)

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Cargill: Meat aisle natural fit for The Chompery treats

The Chompery products are produced in the United States from natural ingredients, are easy to digest, and promote healthier teeth and gums, a The Chompery Fact Sheet stated.

Bone broth has a long history of potential health claims, but the actual research of those claims in pet food is lacking. (Magdalena Kucova | Shutterstock.com)

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Russia restricts pet food with GMOs, mulls ingredients

Besides unofficially restricting U.S. pet foods purported to include GMOs, Russia is also considering limits on imports of meat meal and bone meal.

The Russian pet food market may be disrupted by recent government decisions regarding imports of U.S. pet food, plus meat meal and bone meal. l Vladislav Vorotnikov

Grain-free diet change related to longer life for DCM dogs

Among dogs diagnosed with canine dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), veterinary medicine researchers at Tufts University identified a correlation between survival time and changing from a grain-free dog food diet.

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The day everything changed: How pet food, owners reacted

The pandemic swiftly and significantly affected every aspect of the pet food supply chain, all the way to consumers buying food for their pets.

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Rye grain digestible, palatable in sustainable dog food

As grains grow in pet food popularity in the wake of DCM and sustainability concerns, rye could find wider use in dog food.

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Regulating CBD: The pet food industry or the Wild West?

Walk into any pet store and you’ll see a plethora of dog and cat products with CBD, but they are not approved or legal for sale in pet food or treats.

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Hair of the dog food: ingredients from booze byproducts

By-product from the brewing industry, such as yeast, have served as pet food ingredients since before the coining of the portmanteau “upcycling” in the 1990s.

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Ancient dog diet Ω fatty acids: the eyes have it, guts too

Eating what unfussy hunters and gathers eschewed, such as rodent eyes, may have provided sources of vital nutrients to dogs during domestication, including omega-3 fatty acids eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), along with omega-6 fatty acid alpha linolenic acid (ALA).

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