Technical functionality of different pet food ingredients

Technological functional ity of ingredients is an important factor in pet food processing as it literally holds the product together. Gel formation, binding, setting, thickening, stabilising are all dependant on the ingredients used in combination with the processes. Clyde don from CCL in the Netherlands explains some of the basic facts. Technically speaking we can divide the current pet foods that are on the market into five types:   Dry, semi-moist, moist, canned and “fun” s