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Hawkins Pet Food Solutions
for Taste, Safety & Shelf Life

Trusted ingredients that deliver quality, palatability, freshness, and proven performance for animal nutrition formulations.
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Three ways Hawkins supports pet food performance

Ingredient systems designed to support palatant production, microbial risk control, and shelf life protection across pet food applications.

Palatant Production

Supports first bite acceptance, aroma, flavor, and consistent intake.

Food Safety

Helps control spoilage organisms and mitigate microbial risk from pathogens.

Shelf Life

Helps protect product quality, flavor stability, and shelf life.

From first bite acceptance to clean label preservation, Hawkins solutions help maintain product quality across the full pet food lifecycle.

Palatants

Drive First Bite Acceptance

Palatant systems help improve aroma and flavor, supporting first bite acceptance, consistent intake, and repeat consumption across pet food applications.

Key Benefits

  • Increases food acceptance.
  • Enhances aroma and flavor.
  • Supports product consistency.
  • Encourages repeat consumption.

Key Components

pH Adjustments (Acids and Buiffers), Amino Acids, Mold Inhibitors, Carriers

Food safety

Control Microbial Risk

Food safety systems help control spoilage, mitigate microbial risk from pathogens, and maintain product safety while supporting clean label positioning.

Key Benefits

  • Helps control pathogens and spoilage organisms.
  • Supports food safety and quality programs.
  • Enables label-friendly antimicrobial approaches.
  • Helps maintain product integrity through processing and storage.

Key Components

Buffered vinegar, organic acids and salts, and fermentation-based antimicrobial systems.

Shelf life & product protection

Protect Product Quality Throughout Shelf Life

Shelf life systems are designed to protect product quality and stability through oxidation control, mold inhibition, and antimicrobial support.

Key Benefits

  • Helps extend shelf life.
  • Supports color and flavor stability.
  • Helps control mold and spoilage.
  • Maintains overall product integrity during storage and distribution.

Key Components Include

Natural and synthetic antioxidants, fermentation products, and antimicrobial systems.

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Get a concise overview of Hawkins solutions for palatability, food safety, shelf life, clean label preservation, and water treatment support.

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Clean label preservation with vinegar-based systems

Pet food brands need effective antimicrobial solutions while meeting demand for recognizable, label-friendly ingredients. Hawkins offers buffered vinegar options designed to help support antimicrobial performance, shelf life, and clean label positioning.
Liquid and Dry Buffered Vinegar
  • Supports label-friendly antimicrobial approaches.
  • Helps control pathogens and extend shelf life.
  • Uses vinegar-based systems consumers recognize.
  • Certified organic available in liquid and dry buffered vinegar formats.

Built to Support Taste, Safety & Shelf Life

Hawkins ingredient systems help manufacturers support first bite acceptance, manage microbial risk, and protect product quality through storage and distribution.

First Bite Performance

Supports food acceptance with additives for palatant production

Microbial Risk Control

Helps control spoilage organisms and mitigate microbial risk from pathogens in pet food systems.

Processing Support

Inhouse meat scientists to assist with human grade pet food processing.

Clean Label Compatibility

Supports label-friendly formulations using vinegar-based and fermentation-derived solutions.

Product Integrity

Helps maintain color, flavor stability, and finished product consistency through storage and distribution.

Shelf Life Stability

Supports oxidation control, mold inhibition, and product quality throughout shelf life.

Applications across Pet Food Formats

Hawkins ingredient systems support taste, safety, and shelf life across a wide range of pet food applications.

Dry Kibble

Antioxidants for product protection.

Treats & Chews

Anti-microbials for spoilage control.

Human-Grade Pet Food

Anti-microbial processing systems and
technical expertise.

Hawkins Water Treatment Systems

Integrity at intake. Compliance at discharge.

From process water quality to responsibly treated outflow, Hawkins water treatment systems help support efficient, reliable, and compliant pet food processing operations.

Supporting:

  • Industrial process water
  • Industrial wastewater treatment
  • Water treatment chemicals, equipment, and service
  • Operational reliability and discharge management
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Explore Hawkins pet food solutions

Contact our team to discuss palatability, food safety, shelf life, or clean label preservation needs for your next pet food formulation.
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Frequently asked questions

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questions, we’re happy to help.
Hawkins leverages their extensive meat science expertise to bring quality pet food solutions for human grade pet food manufacturers.

A clean label antimicrobial system is designed to help control pathogens and spoilage organisms while supporting ingredient statements consumers can more easily recognize and understand. Hawkins offers vinegar-based clean label options, including buffered vinegar systems in liquid and dry formats, to help support antimicrobial performance and shelf life in pet food applications.

Hawkins solutions support shelf life in pet food by using clean label vinegar-based solutions, antioxidants and fermentation products that help control harmful bacteria and pathogens.
Hawkins fundamentally understands meat and flavor chemistry. We source ingredients foundation to developing the Maillard Reaction in your palatant systems.

Hawkins and Stauber are part of the same organization, with synergistic ingredients for pet food innovations, safety, palatability and shelf life.

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