Animal Nutrition
Happiness that lasts
Barentz is uniquely positioned. With our cross-industry knowledge and involvement in food, feed, and nutraceutical markets via our divisional structure, we are industry experts in the Pet Food industry. Our knowledge of healthy nutrition, combined with human trends and developments, makes us a key partner to help our customers develop new or improved pet food concepts and solutions. We are a one-stop shop to help reduce procurement challenges, and we also proactively partner in proposing new and innovative solutions that we co-create in our application laboratories.
Dry pet food
We use our extensive livestock compound feed knowledge to help our pet food customers formulate a healthy pellet. We supply our customers with the highest quality ingredients from renowned suppliers, but can also deliver commodities that we import ourselves.
Alongside our nutritional offerings, we also have several solutions that aid food processing by reducing dust or ensuring that the final pellet has a shiny coating with a good palatability. And finally, we align with current trends and offer ready-made concepts based on innovative and sustainable ingredients.
Ingredients
Our range of nutritional ingredients is well-established and we provide a one-stop-shop to help reduce procurement efforts. We supply a range of proteins, from vegetable to insects.
We also have a selection of carbohydrates, such as functional starches or fibers, offer palatability enhancers in the form of sweeteners or yeasts, and are active with ingredients that improve the immune system and offer improved animal wellbeing via natural ingredients, such as seaweed.
Wet pet food
Wet pet food brings its own challenges in terms of formulating a food that is healthy and tasty, while retaining the optimal physical properties of the food. Jellification, binding of water and fats in combination with nutritional benefits, and improving shelf life, are examples of processing factors in which balancing formulation is particularly important for a successful product.
With our vast knowledge, we have several solutions that can help in various circumstances, and we can tailor ingredient solutions to our customer’s needs. We are very well aligned with trends in human nutrition, which also drives many trends in pet food, and we are at the forefront of this market with our conceptual offerings based on novel and sustainable ingredients.
Ingredients
We offer several nutritional and functional ingredients from our portfolio that provide solutions for creating tasty pet food with functional properties that improve its processing.
From emulsifiers, such as lecithin, via functional starches and hydrocolloids to fibers. With our in-house produced antioxidants, whether synthetic or natural, from Vitablend, we have a very broad offering next to our portfolio of nutritional ingredients.
Treats & supplements
Our wide portfolio of ingredients is very well suited in helping formulate tasty snacks. A successful treat is not rich in nutrients to avoid overfeeding and obesity in pets, but at the same time, is really tasty and a real treat for the companion animal. We have palatability enhancers, consistency drivers and mouth-feel enhancing ingredients that we bring from our food solutions to pet food as well.
In addition, we offer ingredients and concepts that can deep focus on selected elements of the pets’ diet and can be used in supplements. Our expertise in the nutraceuticals sets us apart and we are very well positioned to help formulate supplementary pet food solutions.
Ingredients
In our portfolio, we have a wide range of products that function well in treats and supplementary pet food products. Our functional starches provide a nice look and feel, to the consumer, as well as to the animals in terms of visual appearance and mouth-feel. Sweeteners and aroma complement this to ensure the snack is a real treat to pets.
With our range of novel ingredients, such as seaweed, pond weed (water lentils) and insect proteins and oils, we offer unique solutions that support animal wellbeing and assist in nutritional focus for supplementary pet food products.
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Get in touch
To find out more about our Animal Nutrition ingredients offer in your region please find your local expert through the Barentz finder or contact us at animalnutrition@barentz.com.
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Tim Lemeer