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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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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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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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Dog and cat diet omega-3 or -6 fatty acids recommendations

Companion animal nutrition researchers consider both types of fatty acid as conditionally required, meaning they are most needed at certain life stages.

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High-protein cat food may reduce bird, wildlife predation

For those cat owners who let their felines roam the neighborhood, high-protein cat food may be one means to reduce predatory pressure on birds and other small wildlife.

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Thai Union fish bone product can be used in pet food

A new product from Thai Union made from tuna bones can provide additive support for bone health in both the human and pet spaces.

Thai Union website

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