If you have a pet, you want to know that the food they eat is safe, healthy, and tasty – just like the food you’d put on your plate. And, in today’s environmentally conscious world, many pet parents want to know that their pets’ food is sustainable, too.
In its commitment to the production of sustainable pet food, NARA knows that rendered animal protein meals are excellent sources of calcium, phosphorus, protein, and essential amino acids. When animal fats are added to feed rations, they provide needed energy and improve taste.
Because North American renderers use strict quality control measures and process at optimum temperatures over a prescribed length of time, animal protein meals are consistently high quality, uniform, stable, affordable, and nutritionally dense. The materials renderers provide allow for more sustainable pet food sourcing while producing high-quality meals for animals.
What rendered materials go into pet food?
Pet food uses a wide range of ingredients that renderers can process from otherwise wasted material from a meat animal which can go toward the creation of nutritious pet food
Rendering has a vital role in providing several critical nutrients that pets need to stay healthy, such as proteins, minerals, vitamins, and carbohydrates. Key ingredients that come from rendering include:
- Meat and bone meal.
- Animal proteins.
- Animal fats.
By using materials that would otherwise be wasted from standard meat preparation, renderers help save production costs and protect the environment.
So, whether you feed your dog or cat wet or dry food, kibble, or treats, you can thank rendering for safe, healthy, well-balanced, and sustainable food nutrition.
