Pets, developing palatable foods

Conventional dry pet foods are typically hard and brittle and have poor palat-ability to the point where it is nnappetizing to both pets and pet owners. Hence, new types of dry pet foods are constantly being developed and marketed. 

Although soft dry pet foods have a highly palatable soft texture, they do not provide the desirable teeth-cleaning characteristics of a conventional dry pet food. Bone and Shannon (1977a) thus developed a dry pet food, which contained both a soft dry pet food component and a hard dry pet food component the product had both a soft... 

However, by far the most fascinating aspect of Pet Food development is the consumer dichotomy dilemma. Who is the consumer — the individual who purchases the product, or the pet that literally consumes it One is concerned with cost, appearance and convenience and the other is concerned with palatability, aroma, texture, etc. It is this dichotomy, satisfying two distinctly different consumers, that makes Pet Food development the intriguing challenge that it is. 

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