Vestkorn is the biggest producer in Europe of natural concentrates from dry milling of pulses. The privately owned company is also the only one in Europe running this kind of processing plant on a continous basis, 24 hours a day. As every miller knows, contionous operation prepares the ground for the best and most stable…
Grain-free pet food now accounts for nearly 30% of pet food sales in the US pet specialty retail channel, as well as four of every 10 new pet food products launched, according to Maria Lange, director of client services and analytics for GfK. Lange presented this data at Petfood Forum 2015 on April 28 in Kansas City.…
AAFCO: Not allowed to label pea isolates for pea starch and pea protein. From 01 January 2015, only the natural pea products made by dry milling and classifying can be labeled pea protein, pea starch and pea fiber respectively. This is great news for the buyers of pet food. With the new rules, the buyers of petfood…
Greg Aldrich, PhD, Pet Food & Ingredient Technology, Inc. has in Petfood industry.com written an interesting article: “Pea proteins: Alternative source for petfoods?” Click on the link for the article. Artikkel: Pea proteins: Alternative source for petfoods? Other articles by Greg Aldrich, PhD, regarding the use of pea in petfood: Peas in petfood: The lowly pea…
A 60-day feeding experiment was carried out to investigate the effects of including lupin protein concentrate (LPC) and pea protein concentrate (PPC) in multiple essential amino acid-supplemented extruded diets for black sea bream (Acanthopagrus schlegeli). Nine diets, including eight diets formulated to contain four mixtures of LPC and PPC with two dietary inclusion levels and one…
Nutritional Information Peas are made up of 73% carbohydrates, 26% protein, and 1% fat. In fact, as a vegetable, peas have exceptionally high protein content. Peas are also a great source dietary fiber, iron, potassium, copper, and manganese. The iron in peas is necessary for your dog’s production of hemoglobin, which helps to carry oxygen…
Peas are a natural palatable ingredient for dogs. Studies by Dr. Keith Behnke at Kansas State University revealed dogs preferred diets containing peas (15% of diet) versus control diets by a ratio of 3,8:1. In other work, first approach, first taste and concumption data for dog foods containing 12,5% peas did not differ significantly from…
“Effect of pea and faba beans fractions on net fluid absorption in ETEC-infected small intestinal segments of weaned piglets” av Jan van der Meulen & Alfons Jansman. biomedicalmodels.eu
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