Cheese: A fun food ingredient for pets and their owners…
Dr. Greg Aldrich provides an overview of the origin and potential benefit for adding cheese to pet foods and treats.
Chicken meal: Is there anything new with this ingredient’s use in pet food?…
A staple in pet food chicken meal has undergone modest changes to its definition and composition in the past 15 years, but challenges remain.
Soybean meal: A quality ingredient with a lot of critics…
Despite claims to the contrary, soybean meal remains a consistent, quality, sustainable and nutritious part of value-minded pet foods.
Fish meal: Supply, preservation biggest challenges for dog and cat diets…
Fish meal remains a high-quality source of protein and omega-3 fatty acids, but supply and preservation challenges may force pet food to be more pragmatic in their choices.
Duck in dog, cat food: The other red meat?…
Duck appears to be here to stay as an alternative meat/protein source in pet foods.
Meat and novel proteins in pet food…
Meat in pet food is here to stay. Here’s what needs to be addressed to meet growing demand.
Freeze-dried meat and pet food…
There are a couple of approaches in which freeze-dried meats are included in pet foods.
Casein: Does it have a use in pet food?…
In pet food, casein shows up in some prescription and specialty diets but we don’t often find it in over-the-counter diets. So why hasn’t it found popularity in pet food?
Organ meats: quality source of protein for pets…
Organ meats have been called a multitude of names like viscera, entrails, tripe, paunch, offal and giblets. Despite the 18th-century monikers, they are the working internal organs, the guts, of the pig, chicken, cow, sheep or fish from which they derive.
Poultry by-product meal and poultry meal: Is there a difference?…
The availability of fresh poultry and rendered poultry products coincided with the commercialization and industrialization of poultry production in the 1940s and 1950s; and feed values for poultry by-product meal (PBPM) were first established in the 1950s (Fuller, 1996). The volume of rendered poultry proteins in 2003 was estimated at 3,073.5 million pounds per year and the companion animal industry consumes about 23% (Pearl 2003).
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