Product development of semimoist cat food from partially defatted peanut flour
1994
Thanawitt Kitumnuaypong | Penkwan Chompreeda | Vichai Haruthaithanasan (Kasetsart Univ., Bangkok (Thailand). Faculty of Agro-Industry. Dept. of Product Development)
Questionairs were mailed to 89 cat owners to determine their need for ready to use cat food. Results indicated that 74.16 percent knew cat food and 37.08, 33.71 and 29.21 percent of them purchased dry, semimoist and canned cat food respectively. Cat owners felt that commercial cat foods contained moderate nutritive values. They preferred fish as a main ingredient in the cat food. Linear programming was employed to formulate cat food to meet requirements of protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, vitamin A and thiamine. The optimum formula of cat food contained partially defatted peanut flour 47.27 percent, fish meal 18.43 percent, wheat flour 23 percent, wheat gluten 10 percent potassium sorbate 0.2 percent, glycerine 1 percent, vitamin A 0.074 percent and thiamine 0.0261 percent. Dried ingredients were mix with water 90 percent, formed and cutted into cylindrycal with diameter 0.7 cm and length 1.25 cm the products were steamed for 10 min dried at 70 deg C for 90 min. The final product contained 10 percent moisture and aw 0.7.
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