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Growth and fattening of pigs: how can hydrolyzed protein help?
Pig farming stands out as one of the most dynamic sectors in animal protein production...
Shrimp Nutrition: what is the protein requirement at each stage?
Shrimp farming, or aquaculture, is growing as a productive and economic sector.
Feed and Food Ingredients: Specification Guide
BRF Ingredients was founded in 2016 with the goal of transforming animal and plant co-products into innovative...
Feeding Tilapia by growth stage: ingredients for an efficient diet
Proper nutrition is essential for the healthy development of tilapia, one of the most farmed species worldwide.
Breaded product processing: what are the types of breading?
Breading is a widely used technique in the food industry that goes beyond simply adding a crispy coating to foods.
Learn everything about Hydrolyzed Chicken Protein
Hydrolyzed chicken protein is a nutritious ingredient produced through the enzymatic hydrolysis of chicken viscera, offal, and meat.
Digestibility and Palatability of Chicken Protein Hydrolysate
Animal nutrition is an ever-evolving field, always seeking to offer more efficient and healthy solutions for different species.
What is a sodium reduction flavor and how does it work What is a natural flavor that helps reduce sodium in foods and how does it work
High sodium consumption is a growing concern in the world of nutrition.
How BRF advanced in regenerative agriculture
Sustainable agriculture is essential for ensuring global food security and environmental preservation.
Enzymatic hydrolysis: what it is and how it enhances the quality of ingredients for animal nutritional health
Enzymatic hydrolysis is a biotechnological process that is increasingly valued in the animal nutrition industry.
Integrated supply chain: understand the benefits and functions
The integrated supply chain is an innovative approach that is transforming the way products are generated and distributed.
Specialized animal nutrition: understand the key aspects and their benefits
Specialized animal nutrition is an increasingly developed practice, as it helps improve the health and well-being of animals.
What are Bioactive Peptides?
Do you know what bioactive peptides are? These nutrients have been increasingly used in animal nutrition...
Why Use Animal Protein Ingredients in Marine Species Nutrition?
Among various nutrients, proteins stand out as an essential component for the development of aquatic organisms.
Participation in REAM - Colombia
The food industry is constantly evolving, seeking more efficient and sustainable solutions to meet the demands of an increasingly demanding market. In this scenario, BRF Ingredients stands out as one of the leading suppliers of animal nutrition ingredients.
Common Diseases in Shrimp: Causes and Treatments
Aquaculture, especially shrimp production, is an economically and socially significant activity...
What is Comfort Food: Understand the Meaning of this Trend
Comfort foods are foods that provide a sense of well-being and are often associated with nostalgia and emotional comfort.
How to Develop Hypoallergenic Pet Food? Learn All the Details
Pet nutrition is a growing concern among pet owners, especially when it comes to pets with food sensitivities or allergies...
Breading Flours and Their Functions in the Food Industry
Breading food is a globally utilized technique that not only adds value to products but also extends their shelf life.
How dogs’ taste buds work and their choice of food: The Importance of Palatability
When it comes to feeding dogs, one of the most important aspects to consider is the palatability of the food.
Meet B.FreshFy, BRF Ingredients’ new liquid palatability enhancer created by BRF Ingredients
What is Palatability? It was with this in mind that BRF Ingredients presented its new Palatability line at FENAGRA 2024.
Essential ingredients in dog food
At the center of the Animal Nutrition market in Brazil is a constantly expanding sector: pet food.
Aquaculture: new ingredients solve the sector’s challenges
Consultant in the Animal Nutrition sector in several companies, Wilson Boscolo is the guest of BRFi Talks.
Which nutrients are ideal for each stage of the dogs?
Just like humans, dogs pass through different stages of development, from puppy stage to adult and senior.
Food Ingredients Comprehensive Guide: products for the food industry
The Food Ingredients industry plays a crucial role in worldwide food safety...
Diets for Pigs at Every Stage: Ingredients for More Efficient Nutrition.
Raising pigs requires a carefully planned diet to ensure healthy growth, efficient development, and overall animal well-being.
The Nutritional Benefits of Vegetable Oils
Benefits of Vegetable Oils to the Food Industry, Motives, and how they can contribute to a diet.
Trends in Fish Nutrition for Sustainable Production
Fish production plays a fundamental role in global nutrition, providing high-quality protein to billions of people around the world...
How BioActio can improve the efficiency for fish and crustaceans
The aquaculture industry has significantly growing over recent years, and the search for efficient nutritional...
The benefits of BioActio Efficiency in the Industry of Animal Nutrition
When thinking about co-products in Animal Industry, feathers are often neglected and ignored as a raw material.
How to promote wellness and efficiency in pig farming
Swine farming is an essential sector for the food industry, and within its animal production system...
Trends and innovations: the future of human and animal nutrition
What is the path that lies ahead for the Animal Nutrition and Food Ingredients? How technological innovations are going to change the food industry?
How precision nutrition contributes to animal welfare
Animal well-being is a growing concern in current society and a consolidated tendency in the Animal Nutrition industry.
What products can be produced from soy proteins?
Soy is currently one of the most important food crops in the world (considering both economical and nutrition areas)...
FENAGRA 2023: BRFi presents BioActio Efficiency
The International Fair of Agribusiness Feed & Food featured the participation of BRF Ingredients, which not only showcased its entire portfolio...
How BioAtio improves the Tilapia is digestibility?
The aquaculture has a key role in food safety throughout the world. According to the FAO...
Soy protein benefits and applications in the industry
BRFi Talks invites Rodrigo Nardi, a graduate in Food Engineering from the Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina...
Nutritional solutions for gastrointestinal disorders in dogs
Food hypersensitivity is one of the main diseases that affects dogs. Scientific researches point out that this is the third most common...
5 reasons to include BioActio in Animal Nutririon
The nutrition of production animals represents the largest share of farming costs, reaching about 70% of operating expenses.
The benefits of BioActio in High-Performance Formulations
Hydrolysed proteins are a nutritional support highly used in the food industry to enrich food...
Innovation is a foundation stone in Animal Nutrition
Ananda Portella Felix has a doctoral degree in Animal Nutrition at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR)...
Shrimp farming: how palatability influences breeding
Shrimp feed palatability is a very important aspect for the quality of nutrition. Read more to know how it can directly influence shrimp farming.
How nutrtion can combat and control vibriosis
Animal health maintenance is a constant concern of professionals involved in zootechnical creation. With the development of agricultural sectors, the demand...
BRF TALKS: Expectations for the animal nutrition market
In addition to offering progressively assertive and high-quality solutions to the Animal Nutrition industry, it’s necessary to comprehend the challenges faced...
Protein Sources in Animal Nutrition: Uses and Trends
Production animals need to be nourished with balanced nutrition to achieve proper development levels. Feed (or nutrition) is the most expensive part of the...
How bioactive peptides impact aquaculture
Peptides are organic molecules formed by the union of two or more amino acids through peptide bonds, which occur between the carboxyl group of one amino acid...
What is the current scenario of the Animal Nutrition Market?
What is the current scenario of the animal nutrition market? To better understand the challenges faced by feed producers, in search of s that present an...
How to provide good health and productivity for tilapias?
The world population increases daily and is estimated to reach 8,24 billion people in 2030 [1,2]. Consequently, the supply of safe and affordable food may...
Hypoallergenic pet food and the trend in the pet market
The pet market is a fast-growing segment, and because of this, it seeks new ways to specialize every day to meet the demands of pets and their tutors. The...
Alternatives to improve digestibility of pet food
The pet industry in Brazil is one of the fastest-growing markets, with pet food products accounting for more than 73% of its income. In 2020, the sector as a...
What is digestibility in aquaculture and how to improve it
In order to formulate feed and choose ingredients for fish farming nutrition it is essential to consider not only the quantity of protein necessary for a...
What are the factors that affect animal digestibility?
When formulating feed and foods for animals certain important factors must be considered in order to maintain the efficiency of the product and a good uptake...
Soy ingredient: applications in the industry
Projections indicate that in the coming years there will be even greater demand for foods that use soy as one of the main ingredients in their formulations,...
The importance of traceability in the industry
Brazil is one of the largest animal feed producers in the world, according to REAVI, and in recent years, the animal nutrition industry has shown great...
BioActio in the development of pet food
Hydrolyzed proteins present several advantages in terms of optimizing the physical, chemical, and nutritional properties of non-hydrolyzed proteins. One of...
Animal Flour: How to potentialize ration formulation for pets?
Ensuring quality food for domestic animals is an increasingly important concern for both pet owners and producers. Between 2013 and 2018, almost 7 million...
How to increase digestibility in pet food
Another factor that must be considered when choosing an ingredient is information about its digestibility. This is an essential element to provide quality...
What are the essential amino acids aquaculture?
For aquatic animals, more important than the protein content required in the diet, is its quality. But how do you measure the quality of a protein to use in...
How palatability impacts acquaculture?
In aqua nutrition, palatability is an important aspect to be taken into account when formulating feeds, considering that this characteristic is intrinsically...
BioActio: key-ingredient to more effective feeds
In recent years, we can observe an increase in the demand for proteins in animal feed application, due to the great importance of this nutrient for...
The pet market growth and its role in animal nutrition
In recent years, there has been a big trend in society as a whole in purchasing pets. According to a survey by the Insurance Information Institute, for...
Sensory analysis in food formulation
There are many factors to be considered in the decision-making process of buying food. Currently, aspects such as brand reputation, nutritional value of the...
Aquaculture: what is the importance of bioactive peptides?
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), global fish supply is projected to reach 201 million tonnes in 2030....
Tendencies for food devolpment
2019 was an innovative year in the food industry environment. Several trends have gained strength and helped to establish a new look for foods that have...
What advantages does incorporating Feather Flour offer when formulating ration for fish?
The profitability of aquaculture, especially the fish segment, is deeply related to the type of feed used. A balanced diet rich in proteins that contain...
Animal Nutrition: how to choose the right protein for pets
When choosing pet food, most pet owners have one focus in mind: protein. And actually, it could not be otherwise. Balanced protein intake is an essential part...
Sustainability in the food industry
The awakening of a greater environmental and social awareness among consumers has created new habits and behaviors that even affect their consumption...
How to qualify suppliers for animal nutrition?
It is not possible to obtain a quality product without the raw material and the inputs also having quality. This is an old and extremely true saying...
Poultry Oil: How this source of lipids can benefit the pork production
The success of pig farming is closely related to the efficiency of animal weight gain. For the weight gain to occur with a healthy development of the pigs, it...
Why should pet formulations contain antioxidants?
Antioxidants perform very important functions for the human body and also for food products. Because of this, they are always in evidence regarding scientific...
Common fish diseases: causes, symptoms and treatments
Fish farming has become increasingly important as it meets the demand for high quality animal protein. In addition, the consumption of fish offers consumers...
Enzymatic hydrolysis as an ally of animal nutrition
Why to hydrolyze a protein? What are the advantages that it can bring from a nutritional point of view? The key to this question helps answer why enzymatic...
What can the market teach about fitness formulations?
The number of gyms seems to multiply every day. Just as we have the impression that observing people in workout clothes everywhere has become a constant. It’s...
Salmonella: controll strategies in pig farming
Salmonellosis is an intestinal infection caused by Salmonella bacteria. Very common in pig farms, this bacteria is capable of infecting both animals and...
Pisciculture: What are the nutritional requirements for each stage
Those who are part of the fish farming business are already familiar with the three phases that make up fish farming: fingerling, rearing and fattening. Each...
Breading: how to make sensorial food?
Crispness is one of the sensory attributes most appreciated by consumers. The intensity of this characteristic is used to measure the quality of many fried...
How the nutritional phases in dogs can impact their ration formulations?
Dogs have very specific nutritional demands for healthy growth and development. From puppies to old dogs, every life phase will bring with it...
The importance of natural aroma in food
.The use of natural flavours is of great importance in the food industrialization process due to the need to make the products more appetizing and closer to...
Aquaculture: why replace fish oil with animal oil?
In aquaculture, without any doubt, animal feed represents the largest portion of production cost. The formulated feed for aquatic animals has as one of its...
Feline nutrition: how to create a complete and healthy formulation
Cat owners sometimes get lost among the different cat food options available in the market. Which one will be the most pleasing to the feline palate? Which...
The importance of crunchiness in food formulations
We’ve all had the unpleasant experience of eating a cookie that was out of the original package for some time. Although the taste remains the same, that...
How temperature affects pig farming
Pig farming is one of the most profitable areas of animal husbandry. The low initial investment needed, the high meat performance and the pigs ability to...
Palatability: Fundamental Concept for Pet Food
The food taste is one of the main characteristics that determine our choice of purchase. Often, we stop consuming extremely nutritious products because they...
How different diets can impact the weaning process of pigs?
Whoever works in the swine industry knows that the weaning phase is one of the most delicate ones during the life cycle of pigs. Weaning is a transitional...
How technology promotes the new era in the industry?
An integrated factory, in which all sectors talk to each other and the generated data is used in a systemic way. Fully automated production lines, where...
The importance of suplementation in Animal Nutrition
Over the past 50 years, global meat consumption has increased a lot. Analyzing the results of the sector, there was a growth of 4 to 5 times, going from 71.36...
Industry 4.0: the new revolution in the food markety
It was just a matter of time for the currently available technology to start to integrate in a more robust way the companies’ routine. With the high capacity...
Major diseases in swine farming: how to avoid them
That Swine Farming has expressive money transactions, job opportunities and other numbers that are related to the production chain, we’ve already heard many...
How to avoid waste in the food industry?
Within the industrial universe, whatever is the market segment, the waste of raw material likewise signals financial waste. Because of that, companies develop...
How to improve Pig Nutririon?
In Pig Farming, the highest cost of production is represented by food. This statement, however, ends up resulting in many pig farmers to make a mistake that...
The importance of Oils and Animal Fat in Pet Feed
No leftover food! Modern consumers seek differentiated food for their pets, with good palatability, presence of essential nutrients, quality ingredients and...
Care in formulating foods for children
Anyone working in R&D knows that developing food-related products is not a simple task. The challenge becomes even more difficult when the target...
Swine nutrition: 6 variables to pay attention to
Within a productive system of animal husbandry, food management corresponds to the greater part of the costs. Specifically in the pork production , the...
How can food industry adapt to the consumer?
Food production can benefit from news in various instances. The innovations can be either from mechanical or technological origin as well as those involving...
What ingredients to avoid in pet nutrition?
Thinking about better alternatives to improve animal performance and quality of life from feeding is essential. Therefore, it is necessary to consider the...
What are bench tests, pilot-plant, and industrial tests?
A company’s research and development sector is the heart of innovation. A place where new ideas and strategic plans are developed to conceive new products...
8 strategies for Supply Chain
All companies work with numbers. Numbers build statistics and performance indicators that guide the work of managers and investors of an...
How BioActio pontecialize nutrition in aquaculture?
In an animal husbandry system, efficient food management is a determining factor in the business success. In an production environment of aquatic organisms...
A new reality in the market called Clean Label
The modern consumer is increasingly demanding and informed, and because of this has higher access to information about foods, which is observed on what he or...
How to develop Supplier Risk Management in the food industry?
Supplier Risk Management in the food industry often gives the impression of being a privilege in the supply sector of just a few companies. Rarely do...
Bioactive Peptides: A More Efficient Animal Nutrition
Knowing the best nutritional solution is a necessity for breeders and a duty of those responsible for the manufacture of animal feed. Therefore, understanding...