Nestec S.a.

Ralston Purina Company

Nestec Ltd

Bhajmohan (Ricky) Singh

Bryan Wilson Badger

Robert Carvalho

Donald Roland Speck

Stephen E Woerz

Sandeep Bhatnagar

Karl L Kettinger

Jill A Stoll

Diane Kalishman

Cathryn (Kati) Fritz-Jung

Monique Nielsen

Brigitte Martineau

Peifang Zhang

Gregory J Norsworthy

Gary J Woodward

A kiosk configured for selling and manufacturing customized food for a pet is disclosed. The kiosk comprises a customer interface area, a biological sample analysis and handling area, a base product display area, a product additive storage area, and an ingredient mixing and customer observation area.

Pet food kiosk

A method for creating a customized pet food additive formula for a pet includes receiving, through an electronic interface, a user input including an individual pet profile for the pet, receiving an analysis from a biological sample of the pet, and electronically processing the individual pet profile and the biological sample analysis to create a pet food additive formula utilizing information obtained from the user input individual pet profile and the biological sample analysis.

Methods and apparatus for customizing pet food

A process for making a dry, stable intermediate pet food including meat includes the steps of combining a plurality of ingredients specified by a basal pet food formula, wherein the plurality of ingredients includes a slurry of meat, mixing the plurality of ingredients to form a basal mixture, extruding the basal mixture, cutting the extruded basal mixture into flakes, and drying the flakes to a moisture content of less than about 10% by weight. In one embodiment, to make a finished pet food composition, the flakes are shipped for final processing to a processing facility having finishing equipment including grinding, extruding and coating equipment.

Process for dry stable intermediate pet food composition

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St. Louis, MO, United States of America

Bhajmohan (Ricky) Singh