A partnership has been made between SPF Palatability/DIANA Pet Food and BRAIN AG; the partnership will last for five years while they study taste perception in cats. Isabelle Guiller, Global R&D Director at DIANA Pet Food said, "in the field of pet food, there is high demand for palatability, which depends first and foremost on the pet sensory equipment and individual preferences and on the pet food sensorial properties. Through the implementation of the program, DIANA Pet Food in partnership with BRAIN, will generate new access routes to palatability performance in order to help pet food manufacturers achieve high quality and tasty pet food products."
Proliferating cat taste cells will be used to screen new food ingredients for palatability. Dr. Michael Krohn, Unit Head BioActives and Performance Biologicals at BRAIN AG said, “the combination of the CTC cell lines together with the BioCompActive natural molecule library from our BioArchive as a screening resource will help us to identify compounds which will increase the palatability of cat food. We are proud to use our technology in order to help our strategic partner DIANA Pet Food to improve the formulations of various cat food products." With the knowledge gained from this study, DIANA Pet Food will be able to offer new palatability enhancers to appease cats and their owners.
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