A plethora of dietary fiber ingredient options for pet food must be properly balanced to reap functional and nutritional benefits.

MiAlgae said it will apply the investment toward commercializing the sustainable ingredient for use in pet food and aquaculture applications.

Citri-Fi from Fiberstar can be used to bind, texturize, retain moisture and more in semi-moist pet treats, biscuits, wet canned or chub-rolled pet foods, and injection-molded bones.