How to measure pet food palatability: methods overview

Several methods exist to assess pet food palatability. The one-bowl and the two-bowl tests are the most common, mainly based on food intake measurement. Complementary methods with innovative criteria including pets’ behavior can bring additional information to characterize pet foods’ palatability performance.

All pet food manufacturers want their products to be eaten. All pet food manufacturers thus need to design palatable pet foods.

But how to know whether a product is appetizing?

How to know whether Max will run to his bowl to eat his kibbles? Or whether fish is more attractive to Kitty than a mouse?

And what about pet owner? Should is opinion be part of the equation?

From acceptance measurement to enjoyment assessment, DISCOVER METHODS to uncover what pets crave for...

Source: Symrise Pet Food

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Symrise Pet Food, part of the Taste, Nutrition & Health segment of Symrise, is the global leader of sustainable high value solutions improving pets’ well-being and owners’ satisfaction. The division provides multiple products and services improving pet food palatability, pet nutrition and pet food protection. Symrise Pet Food is present on five continents with 1,750 employees, 32 industrial sites, and four expert measurement centers with 1,100 cats and dogs.

Symrise Pet Food aims to bring all pets a better life by being at the heart of every eating experience by 2030.

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