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Pet Food Palatability
Pet Food Palatability
Age-specific cat food accounts for changing tastes across life stages
Cat owners are becoming more interested in understanding how flavor preferences change throughout a cat’s life.
Pet Food Ingredients
Study: Microbial protein shows strong pet palatability
In taste tests, cats and small dogs preferred MicroHarvest’s MPX protein over control diets, demonstrating potential for microbial protein in pet food formulations.
Trending: Pet Food Podcast
EPISODE 85: What roles do nutraceuticals play in pet food?
In this episode of Trending: Pet Food, NutriFusion CEO William Grand joins host Lindsay Beaton to break down synthetic vs. natural nutraceuticals and discuss their evolving role in pet nutrition.
Trending: Pet Food Podcast
EPISODE 83: What are the possibilities for shrimp byproducts as pet food ingredients?
Host Lindsay Beaton and Michel Lockhart with ChitoLytic explore the evolving role of shrimp meal in pet food, from palatant to potential protein source, and the growing interest in chitosan for its nutritional and functional benefits.
Research Notes
Value found in both traditional, new pet food palatability analysis
After reviewing the palatability measures available, researchers concluded that traditional methods remain essential, but new approaches are expanding humans’ understanding of pet food preferences.
Petfood Forum News
Understanding flavor preferences in aging cats
Ana Rita Monforte, Ph.D., will explore how sensory changes influence food acceptance and the future of tailored feline nutrition in her Petfood Forum session.
Research Notes
Chicken heart, liver hydrolysate beat meal in dog food
Hydrolysates may be more digestible for dogs than ingredients made from intact proteins, such as chicken meal. Hydrolyzed proteins also may be less likely to trigger allergic responses.
Adventures in Pet Food
Pet food innovation happening in ingredients, research
New pet food research into ingredients, equipment, processes and other areas helps drive innovation in the market, keeping it thriving and growing.
Pet Food News
By-product grind size didn’t affect dog food digestibility
Particle size may not affect protein or fat digestibility in poultry by-product meals used as dog food ingredients. Likewise, by-product meal particle size doesn’t seem to affect fecal quality or palatability.
Nutrition
Why pet food palatability and aroma matter so much
Research has revealed fascinating facts about how the sense of taste and smell function in dogs and cats, with important clues for formulating pet food.
Pet Food News
Cellulose fibers didn’t affect dog food digestion, palatability
Scientists conducted an experiment using three different types of cellulose in dog foods compared to the same formulation without those fiber sources.
Pet Food Market
15 fun and fascinating pet food flavor facts
For cats and dogs to benefit from their food, it must be palatable to them so they’ll eat it. The senses of taste and smell (and others) play a key role.
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