Pet Food Palatability: Page 5

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.

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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)

Millennials would make dog, cat kibble with novel flavors

Pet food palantant market researchers discovered that, if given the opportunity, millennial pet owners in Mexico may choose to create dog or cat foods with flavors other than those commonly found in the pet food market.

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Palatants from plants, insects create pet food options

Non-meat palatants also provide tools for formulating pet foods using novel proteins.

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Pet Food Market

Human perception key in pet food sensory technologies

Pet owners' perceptions play as much of a role in sensory technologies as the desires of pets themselves.

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Pet Food Safety

Improving pet's well-being and owners' satisfaction

Market insights and practical tips on pet food palatability, protection, performance measurement and pet health & nutrition. Sponsored by Diana Pet Food.

Diana Pet Food French study

Owners buy pet food with better smell over pungent peers

A pungent pet food could easily overpower the sumptuous aromas of pet owners’ own food.

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