Just like human staple food needs in addition to three meals a day, they also want to eat some snacks to meet their appetites. From the day when pets are becoming more and more popular to others, many people are keen to add snacks to their pets. According to statistics, last year Tmall platform pet snack sales brand sold more than 77 million yuan in pet snacks, allowing people to see the great potential of the pet snack market.
Of course, unlike humans, whose foods are controlled by self-consciousness, pet snacks have more functionality to meet some of the needs of staple foods that cannot be brought to pets. Like pets, in order to ease the discomforts in the oral cavity, pets are beginning to love biting at home. In this case, some people will choose to buy hard molar snacks; those who want to train pets will usually choose small snacks as rewards for pets when they complete their assigned tasks; there are also snacks to eliminate bad breath...
The variety of raw materials used in pet snacks is varied. From the viewpoint of palatability, fish is used mostly for snacks, and poultry meat is used as a raw material for snacks. For biting dogs, for example, dog chews are mostly made of hides, plants, etc., and bad breath is removed. The products are mostly made into small biscuits style, and the raw materials are mainly fruits and vegetables... This means that in the pet snack ingredient processing stage, corresponding food machinery equipment needs to be processed according to the different raw materials. Take the chewing of livestock hides as an example, in the early stage of production needs The animal skins are subjected to depilation and pelleting. As a kind of material with strong flexibility, the hides require a high degree of sharpness of the cutting tools and need to be checked and replaced regularly.
The pet snacks that use meat as the main raw material are usually produced by baking, lyophilization, cooking and other different methods. The baking equipment has a certain regulation effect on temperature and time, and the control of these conditions can produce different soft Hard pet snacks regulate the palatability of snacks. Vacuum freeze-drying technology is among the most capable of retaining the nutrients of the ingredients in the drying equipment. The pet snacks produced in this way are superior in nutritional status. , Freeze-drying will remove the raw material moisture, so in the subsequent packaging process using a vacuum packaging machine, modified atmosphere packaging machine can be packaged. Using cooking pot to process food ingredients is usually a snack canned production method, the output of the canned product needs to go through High temperature sterilization to ensure food safety.
Claw is a kind of pet snacks for molars. The most important thing is to knead the mixture of gelatin and other materials such as pelt granules and plant granules. The kneading machines on the market are relatively comprehensive, with vacuum type, screw extrusion type, and glue. Kneader, etc. The chewing needs to be heated and softened in the kneading machine during the production process, thermostatic gelation, high temperature sterilization, and temperature stabilization in four different temperature stages. Currently, food machinery equipment manufacturers can produce kneaders in the output According to customer needs with different heating methods: electric heating, steam heating, circulating hot oil heating.
The biscuits that eliminate bad breath mainly use the friction between the biscuit and the teeth to remove the tartar from the pet's mouth, so as to achieve the purpose of cleaning the teeth and removing bad breath. The automatic biscuit production line on the market can be realized from feeding, molding and baking. Injection, cooling, fully automatic operation, and equipped with biscuit molding machine using variable frequency control, easy operation and replacement of biscuit shape. In the baking stage using low-temperature baking technology can simultaneously achieve sterilization, aging effect, avoid biscuits due to multiple high temperatures Burning phenomenon occurs in the job.
Compared with pet foods occupying half of pet food, pet snacks account for a relatively small market share. However, from the brand point of view, unlike the majority of staple foods that respect foreign natural foods and foreign canned products, domestic brands in the pet snack market dominate. Under such circumstances, taking the pet snack market as a breakthrough for domestic pet food companies will be a good opportunity. Related pet snack manufacturers and related food machinery and equipment companies must seize the opportunity to look for the needs of pets in the process of growth and accelerate the development of products to occupy the market. .