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Something to Chew on

How functional pet food’s consumer appeal ties to buying

Many pet owners show awareness of the importance of pet nutrition to health and wellness, yet only half are willing to pay more for functional benefits.

Pet owner surveys over the past few years show the majority are aware of the key role nutrition plays in their pets’ health.

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

Pet Food Ingredients

Pet food ingredients and product innovation

Learn about the current state of pet food ingredients and product innovation, particularly the challenges and pitfalls inherent in “ingredient demonization.”

The demonization of pet food ingredients from within the industry limits the potential for innovation and confuses pet food consumers.

Juvenia Nutrition unveils dog food with resveratrol in Chile

The innovative dog food launch in Chile follows a successful introduction in Argentina.

Juvenia Nutrition Corgi Dog Food

French dog food company adds insect protein line

Réglo’s strategy of locally sourcing pet food ingredients will now also include insect proteins.

Ingredients Usage Analysis

DNA barcoding finds pet food mislabeling in South Korea

A new case study highlights the importance of pet food authentication to protect pets and their owners.

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Hemp seeds lack one amino acid to meet dog, cat food needs

Hemp seeds alone do not meet all the amino acid requirements for adult dogs and cats. Hemp seeds would need a complimentary protein source.

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Pet Food Ingredients

Amino acids: Building blocks or hazards?

Learn about amino acids, the "building blocks" of proteins, and when they can cross the threshold into regulatory hazard territory.

Knowing when amino acids may become hazards is an important part of understanding pet nutrition.

Adventures in Pet Food

Functional pet food drivers: health, nutrition, science

A new study from Kerry shows half of North American pet owners surveyed are willing to pay more for pet foods with functional benefits, with the key to their willingness lying in a keen interest in health and nutrition.

Functional Pet Food Ingredients

Pakistani cat food manufacturer faces ingredient shortages

For Nourvet and other pet food manufacturers, importing ingredients into Pakistan is difficult due to governmental restrictions, plus the rupee’s devaluation.

Nourvet Cat Food Pakistan

Adventures in Pet Food

What’s in a name: Can ‘upcycling’ attract pet food buyers?

Does consumer interest in upcycled foods offer an opportunity to rebrand pet food ingredients like meat by-products with more pet-owner-friendly label claims?

California Safe Soil works with supermarkets to obtain meat past its sell-by date, but still fresh and safe, preserving the cold chain to quickly convert it into pet food ingredients.

Industrial symbiosis helps pet food sustainability, profits

Beyond the sustainability benefits of the plant itself, the oil from BSFL could help preserve tropical forests where orangutans and other endangered species live.

Black soldier fly larvae growing beds in Innovafeed facility

Minimal processed plant-based protein pet food less digestible

With both plant-based diets and minimal processing growing in popularity among pet owners, the intersection of the two trends needs to be considered by pet food makers.

Biotechnology engineer examining plant of corn for disease.

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