Pet Food Ingredients: Page 20

Pet Food Market

Pet obesity rate and tracking affected by pandemic

Though COVID-19 delayed or eliminated some official pet obesity surveys, less scientific ones have shown U.S. dogs and cats continuing to gain weight.

Life on White | Bigstockphoto.com

Brand Insights

Pet food ingredient insights for new product development

WATT Global Media

Explore sustainable and healthy ingredients that keep your formulations profitable. Brand Insights from Petfood Industry.

Pet food ingredient insights for new product development

Silkworm may be novel, insect-based pet food ingredient

Scientists in Thailand and Taiwan have investigated silkworms as a novel pet food ingredient in dog and cat foods.

Silkworm cocoon in bamboo weave tray. Cocoons of Thai silkworm growing in bamboo trays. Silkworm is a source of silk thread and silk fabric.

Pet Food Market

Sustainability, plant-based top food trends for 2022

The top human food trends for 2022—sustainability and its offshoots, plant-based, gut health—all play an increasingly important role in pet food, too.

Sustainability permeates many top human food and pet food trends for 2022. grapestock I Shutterstock.com

Vets may influence sustainable dog, cat food purchases

By reaching out to veterinarians, pet food producers and their suppliers could help inform consumers about how their purchases affect the wider world.

(Sviatlana Barchan | iStockPhoto.com)

Alpha-lipoic acid helps dogs, may harm cats

A review of research on alpha-lipoic acid supplements collected evidence that the chemical can benefit dogs health in various ways.

Diana Pet Food to increase capacity in Mexico with new plant

Pet food ingredient supplier Diana Pet Food will build a new plant in Querétaro, increasing its production capacity in Mexico five-fold by 2024.

Diana Pet Food's facility in Querétaro, Mexico.

Pet Food Market

What plant-based human food revolution means for pet food

Consumers are seeking more plant-based foods for themselves and for their pets, but further research is needed on these as pet food ingredients.

Courtesy of Beneo

French pet food ingredient supplier launches new factory

Nor-Feed, supplier of natural, botanical pet food ingredients, is expanding to significantly increase its delivers to pet food companies and expand exports.

Nor-Feed’s new production facility is located in Chemillé, in France’s western part, the country’s aromatic and medicinal plant hub.

Upcycled pet food ingredient certification requirements

Upcycling is a new word for something the pet food industry has done for a long time, using human food products that would have otherwise gone to waste.

Discarded human foods can be used in pet foods and treats, helping reduce food waste and ensure sustainable pet food ingredient supplies. (Sheila_F | BigStock.com)

Pet Food Market

Which pet food claims and features should brands track?

The types of pet foods consumers are searching for online can provide important clues, but some product claims or attributes may be just a point of entry.

Pet-store-treats-claims

Label pea-protein cat food as not for ferrets, vet says

During the past decade, one veterinarian has observed a rise in the prevalence of cystine urolithiasis, a type of bladder stone, especially during the past five years.

Ferret baby posing in studio on blue blanket for portrait

Dog nutraceutical trial in Mexico shows health benefits

The supplement featuring a patented ingredient of oxidized beta-carotenes was designed to support dogs’ immune systems and combat some ailments.

The last year has given a boost to the pet supplement market, as pet owners are zeroed in on their own health and that of their pets. | Ellen Coleman I Shutterstock.com

Page 20 of 111