How We Make Pet Food
How We Make Your Pet Food: Crafting Nutrition and Enjoyment in Every Bite
At Supreme Petfoods, our production process is designed not only for quality but to support your pet’s overall health, natural behaviours, and enjoyment. Using advanced extrusion techniques, we create nutritionally balanced, highly palatable food tailored to the unique needs of each species. Here’s how our process ensures food that is both beneficial to your pets and encourages their natural instincts to forage and explore.
1. Ingredient Selection and Precise Mixing
Every Supreme Petfoods product begins with carefully selected, premium raw materials. We blend these ingredients in precise ratios to create a balanced base for our extrusion process. This initial mixing ensures that each batch delivers the exact nutrition your pet needs for a healthy, active life.
2. Extrusion: Preserving Nutrients and Customising for Species-Specific Needs
Extrusion is the cornerstone of our production process. It not only preserves essential nutrients but also allows us to customise the shape, size, and texture of our food to meet the unique dietary needs of different species. The extrusion process effectively locks in vitamins, minerals, and key nutrients while ensuring the food is highly digestible and enjoyable to eat.
We produce a variety of extrusions in different shapes and sizes, specifically designed to suit the natural feeding habits and preferences of each species. Smaller, rounder pieces are perfect for hamsters and gerbils, while rabbits benefit from larger, crunchier pieces that encourage chewing. These tailored shapes help stimulate natural foraging behaviours, providing enrichment and keeping pets mentally and physically engaged with their food.
3. Mixes that Help Prevent Selective Feeding
Our mixes are specially formulated to include extrusions instead of cold-pressed pellets. This creates a better balance of palatability throughout the mix, ensuring pets enjoy the entire meal and reducing the risk of selective feeding. With consistent textures and flavours across the mix, our food ensures your pet receives all the essential nutrients they need.
4. Advanced Mixing for Perfect Balance
Before bagging our mixes, our extrusions are thoroughly blended using advanced mixing techniques. This ensures an even distribution of the various shapes, sizes, and textures within the food. Each portion delivers a balanced combination of nutrients and palatability, ensuring consistency and meeting the dietary needs of your pets in every pack.
5. Bagging and Packing: Sealing in Freshness
Once the food is ready, it enters our automated bagging and packing system. Our high-quality packaging is designed to protect the food from moisture, air, and other environmental factors that could affect freshness. Each bag is carefully sealed to preserve the flavours, textures, and nutritional value, ensuring that your pet enjoys the same fresh, tasty meal with every serving
The Benefits of Extrusion: Playability, Palatability, and Enrichment
Extrusion offers significant advantages over cold-pressed pellets. It preserves the nutritional integrity of the food while enhancing palatability — pets naturally prefer the taste and texture of extruded food. The variety of shapes and sizes created through extrusion adds to the playability of the food, encouraging pets to engage with their meals by chewing and foraging, all without the need for added sugars. This promotes a healthier, more natural feeding experience that contributes to your pet’s overall enrichment and well-being.
Our commitment to species-specific extrusions ensures that your pets can engage in their natural behaviours, such as foraging and chewing, supporting their mental and physical health. At Supreme Petfoods, we believe that the food we create isn’t just a meal—it’s an opportunity for enrichment, enjoyment, and improved quality of life for your pets.