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Pet food ingredients

Photo: katerinavulcova, Pixabay

The yellow mealworm
is also used as a supply Reducing the global
of protein in pet food
pawprint
production.

Insects are considered one of the most sustainable sources of
protein for the production of dog food. Christian Ihl gave a
presentation on the subject at the Nordic Pet Food Conference.

“500 million cats and dogs in the of the British company Yora. The Insect protein is an exotic,
world consume something like company specialises in the pro- hypo allergenic protein that only
23 billion tons of meat each duction of pet food using insect rarely triggers a reaction thanks
year,” says Tom Neish, founder protein. to its low allergy potential. Industry
experts forecast that the global
market for insect protein will grow
Photo: Brett Hondow, Pixabay to over 8 bn dollars by the year
from the current 700 mio dollars

2030. By then, around 50 per
cent of insect protein as a whole
will in all probability be used for
feeding fish, 14 per cent in human
food, 17 per cent on feeding poul-
try and pigs and 19 per cent for
pet food.
“Insects are classified as
farmed animals and can only be
fed with ingredients authorised

The black soldier fly
(Hermetia illucens) is regarded
as the key species for the
production of pet food.

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