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Pet Food Palatability

Improving pet food quality through custom processing

Enhance palatability, reduce product degradation and ensure quality using custom pet food processing solutions. Sponsored by Schenck Process Group.

Brand Insights

Simplify Pet Food Labeling: Strategies for Navigating Global Regulations

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Learn how regulatory complexity is impacting the pet food industry and how brands will meet the challenge using the right digital tools

Simplify Pet Food Labeling: Strategies for Navigating Global Regulations

Pet Food Market

Hill’s plans small dog feeding trial facility in Kansas

Hill’s Pet Nutrition plans to build a 23,000-square-foot facility largely devoted to conducting feeding trials with small dogs.

(Photo by Andrea Gantz)

Dogs and cats readily accept insect-based protein and oil

In feeding trials with both dogs and cats, pet foods made with insect-based ingredients had similar palatability and digestibility to kibble containing conventional pet food protein and oil sources.

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Measuring cats’ food enjoyment can augment consumption data

Because pet parents see feeding as a time to enrich the bond with their cats, measuring a cat’s enjoyment of food and treats can enhance that bond, according to Susan Jojola, Ph.D., manager of applied behavior research at AFB International.

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Pet Food Ingredients

Practical tips on pet food palatability

Improving pet's well-being and owners' satisfaction through market insights on palatability, performance, and pet nutrition. Sponsored by Diana Pet Food.

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Pet Food Market

Petfood Industry launches Chinese-language newsletter

Each newsletter will contain articles in Chinese.

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Freeze-drying novel protein may help pet food palatability

Freeze-dried meat in pet food may offer advantages in shelf-stability, nutrition and convenience over dehydrated, frozen or otherwise preserved protein sources.

Photo by Debbie Phillips-Donaldson

Pet Food Safety

Pet food process improvements to minimize product loss

Techniques and technology that improve the pet food manufacturing process and minimize product, profit loss. Sponsored by Schenck Process Group.

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Pet food feeding trial duration and scope depend on goals

The duration and analysis used in a specific test depend on dog and cat food companies’ objectives, as well as the resources they can dedicate.

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Pet Food Ingredients

Optimizing palatability to produce high-performing pet foods

A collection of updates that cover palatability principles and research to ensure quality pet nutrition and consumption. Sponsored by AFB International.

Principles of pet food palatability

Grain-Free Pet Food

Dogs prefer grain-free over ancient grain carb sources

Grain-free dog foods beat ancient grains in a palatability study, but that doesn’t mean ancient grains like sorghum and millet don’t have a role in pet food formulations.

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Big kibble for small dogs may be easy palatability boost

Without expensive research facilities, small dog food companies lack access to data on the sometimes-counterintuitive results of pet food palatability experiments.

Small dogs come with big personalities, and pet food companies are weaving that knowledge into their formulation and marketing strategies for small breed pet foods. | (Alona Rjabceva | Fotolia.com)

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