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Pet Food Ingredients

Cassava by-product may serve as dog, cat food fiber

Cassava co-product could potentially be used as a fiber source in dog food and cat food.

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Brand Insights

Solving Separation and Segregation Issues in Pet Food Blends

Horizon Systems

Industry trends of using finer ingredients like starches, fillers and flow agents — also regrind and recycle materials — in greater percentages can result in ingredient separation and segregation, affecting your final product.

Solving Separation and Segregation Issues in Pet Food Blends

7 Petfood Industry blogs, columns in November 2023

In November 2023, Petfood Industry’s staff and contributors wrote 7 blogs and columns. These articles covered the relation between human and pet food ingredient trends, prescription pet foods, inflation and more.

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Drivers for sustainability in pet food ingredients

Four drivers for pet food companies to consider in the “why” of sustainable ingredients.

Sustainability Checkmark

Adventures in Pet Food

What top human food trends for 2024 mean for pet food

In the human food world, as in pet food, trends are keying on ingredients such as protein, sustainability, messaging to consumers and proactive health.

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Pet Food Additives/Supplements

Collagen and its potential in pet food

Increasingly touted as a functional ingredient in the pet space, this complex protein is gaining steam in supplements and treats.

Collagen is often mentioned in both the human and pet space as a functional ingredient supporting joint health.

Hydrolyzed chicken liver more digestible than poultry meal in dog food

Dogs fed hydrolyzed chicken liver powder diets exhibited a greater apparent total tract digestibility of crude protein. However, this came with trade-offs as dogs eating hydrolyzed chicken liver powder diets had lower apparent total tract digestibility of

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Pet Food Ingredients

Raw, fresh dog foods outperformed extruded diet digestibility

Freeze-dried raw, hybrid freeze-dried raw, frozen raw and fresh diets outperformed the extruded diet in terms of higher amino acid digestibility coefficients and greater true metabolizable energy values.

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Pet Food Insights

What is the role of regulators in pet food marketing claims?

AAFCO’s potential ‘controlled copper’ label claim should be carefully considered.

AAFCO should carefully consider its possible reach into pet food marketing claims, particularly as relates to the current copper situation.

Cricket, silkworm in food altered dogs’ gut microbiome

Researchers investigated the substitution of poultry meal with house cricket (Acheta domesticus) or mulberry silkworm pupae (Bombyx mori pupae).

Adventures in Pet Food

Human food, pet food ingredients coming full circle?

Human food and pet food have gone through cycles emphasizing avoidance of certain ingredients, yet the focus now seems more on functional ingredients.

Soybeans and meals are among the pet food ingredients that have been demonized over time.

Ingredient Issues

Supportive or softness — Collagen versus gelatin

Collagen should be just as commonly accepted as gelatin in the pet food ingredient approval arena.

While collagen and gelatin have their differences, they are both commonly used as ingredients and should be treated equally when it comes to approval.

Breed, diet, time influence dog heart health; No DCM

There were no significant differences between breeds, diets, and various time points in terms of cardiac-specific biomarkers and endomyocardial biopsies.

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