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Insights
Buyer guides, notes on pet food and feed, and market and season updates from the VCSC team. Every article lists its sources.
Buyer guides
- Cassava pellets explained: hard pellets vs residue pellets, grades, feed uses and what buyers checkRoot-based cassava hard pellets vs cassava residue pellets: what "hard" means, how each is made and graded, where they fit in feed, and what buyers check.
- Importing feed ingredients from Vietnam: the documents a buyer should expectWhich documents travel with every container of feed ingredients from Vietnam, which depend on product, market and contract, and what to check on each.
Pet food & feed
- Cassava, sweet potato, potato, rice: what head-to-head studies show about carbohydrate sources for pet foodDog and cat trials compared cassava, sweet potato, potato starch and rice as carbohydrate sources: digestibility, glucose, extrusion, and why none ranks first.
- Sweet potato flour in extruded kibble: what the research says about expansion, texture and palatabilityHow sweet potato flour behaved in the extruder against corn, rice, potato starch and pulses: gelatinisation, expansion, density, hardness and dog preference.
- Sweet potato in pet food: what the research says about sweet potato starchWhat controlled studies in dogs and cats show about sweet potato as a carbohydrate source against corn, rice, wheat, potato and pulses, and the trade-offs.
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