Development and Quality Evaluation of Nutritious and Healthy Biscuits for Dogs

Abstract

Pet food awareness among people is increasing day by day due to
humanization trends towards pets. The pet owners are searching for various quality pet
foods having different tastes. Therefore, there is an increase demand of premium
products i.e. organic, raw and natural pet foods which are giving lots of choices for pet
owners. The present study entails the preparation of dog biscuits by using cheap and
organic sources. Orange, apple and banana peels were used in the preparation of dog
biscuits in order to utilize fruits wastes. Nutritional, heavy metals and aflatoxins
analyses was done to evaluate useful aspects of biscuits for dogs. Aflatoxins were
absent in biscuits and heavy metals were also within permissible levels showing
harmlessness of biscuits for pet dog. The biscuits were offered to pet dogs for sensory
evaluation and were found acceptable. The results from nutritional analysis showed
that the prepared biscuits for dog are a nutritive food having enough high calories of
407.55 Kcal/100g in order to fulfill dietary requirements of dogs. It was concluded that
prepared biscuits for dogs were nutritionally fit for dog’s health.