Pet Food Ingredients: Page 6

Dog and Cat Food Nutrition

Survey: Protein source out-ranks amount for dog food purchases

The research examined purchasing choices made by dog owners and how their perceptions of protein quality and quantity informed their decisions.

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Phytonutrients in pet food pushed

A veterinary expert is urging Philippine veterinarians and pet food professionals to incorporate phytonutrients into pet diets and supplements to support health and curb antimicrobial resistance.

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Industry Voices

Lipid excipients offer supplement makers bioavailability, palatability solutions

Lipid-based formulation systems can enhance absorption, overcome palatability challenges and open new delivery pathways for pet supplements.

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Pet Food Ingredients

Goat may be GOAT protein for climate change adapted pet food

As the world warms and farmland degrades, goats could become the Greatest Of All Time mammalian protein source.

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Pet Food Ingredients

Shiitake, black soldier fly meals compared as alternative dog food ingredients

A study compared digestibility and nutritional characteristics of novel ingredients with conventional meat and bone meal.

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Global Commerce

NARA urges USTR to address China trade barriers

The North American Renderers Association has submitted comments to the U.S. Trade Representative's office calling for science-based, transparent trade practices in a proposed U.S.-China Board of Trade.

10 Q&As about pet food for aging dogs and cats

Scientists observed that nutritional recommendations remain largely based on research conducted in younger animals.

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Whole soybeans allowed higher fat in dog kibble extrusion than oil

Researchers compared internal fat supplied by whole soybeans with external fat added as liquid soybean oil during the extrusion of dry dog food.

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APC, Anchor Ingredients partner on pet food distribution

Anchor Ingredients will distribute APC's plasma and specialty protein ingredients to pet food manufacturers across North America.

Adventures in Pet Food

Hype may be top challenge to cultivated protein in pet food

Can cultivated protein escape the fate of other over-hyped novel sources, like insect protein, which seems to have met reality in the current economic environment?

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Dogs prefer honey over cane sugar in biscuit palatability study

A National Honey Board-commissioned study found honey outperformed cane sugar in canine consumption trials, while performing comparably to molasses and numerically ahead of brown rice syrup.

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Wheat beat oats and rye in dog food, contrary to human results

Although oats and rye are often associated with health benefits in people, those advantages were not evident in a study of healthy adult dogs.

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