Pet foods

Starches are used primarily in canned pet food, not in dry or semi-moist products. Canned pet foods with gravy require a stable, non-gelling thickener, so a highly-stabilized waxy maize starch is used. Fluidity com starches are used as gel formers for firm, cuttable loaf products.189 

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The first pet food, a baked mixture of meat, vegetables, and wheat flour, was produced in the late 1800s. Early canned dog foods were composed mostly of meat from horses or dead stock. In the 1950s, high quaUty, nutritionally balanced, oven-baked, and pelleted dog foods became popular with dog owners and provided the most economical and satisfactory sources of dog nutrition. The extmsion process for pet foods was developed in 1954 and by 1957 extmded dog food had become the nation s leading dry pet food. 

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