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Pet Food Market

Pet bird segment enjoys growth, faces pandemic challenges

Learn about current trends in the bird food segment, including the move to natural and organic as well as economic challenges caused by the pandemic.

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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

Pet Food Market

Small pet owners becoming more thoughtful about pet food

Learn about the top trends in the small pet food space, and how they overlap with those in the cat and dog space.

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Rendered pet food ingredients digestibility helps environment

Increasing digestibility improves the amount of nutrition extracted in the rendering process. This makes more pet food ingredients per the quantity of energy used and pollution produced.

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Measuring cats’ delight at dinner benefits pet food makers

Measuring a cat’s enjoyment of their food can help pet food formulators develop new products and improve existing ones.

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Pet Food Market

Dog brain scan suggests dogs see actions more that objects

While Dr. Doolittle’s dream remains elusive, advances in brain scanning and analysis have opened a window into how dogs’ brains reconstruct what they see. Researchers at Emory University found evidence that we should probably be using more verbs when overdubbing our dog’s antics.

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BSF protein an ‘easy swap’ for other proteins in dog food

With alternative proteins increasing in popularity in human foods, they are also gaining interest from consumers of pet food, and black soldier fly (BSF)-based ingredients are among the most popular.

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