What does the pet's "meal" taste like?

　　Cat food taster specially tried cat food: too bad!

Some people earn more than 10,000 yuan per month

　　What kind of food do cats like?

The "shit shoveling officer" may not understand, but cat food tasters must know.

Because their job is to try cat food.

　　Recently, "2021 Taobao Unpopular New Occupation Observation" was released. Among the unpopular occupations on the list are cat food tasters.

Like gourmets who taste human food, pet food tasters are like "foodies" serving pets. They have to make judgments by tasting and chewing pet food to ensure the palatability and durability of the food, and market the food as such. Provide decision-making reference.

　　What is their day job like?

How to guess the preferences of cats and dogs?

　　Brand cat food tasters:

　　Whether cat food is fragrant or not, the cat has the final say

　　Xiao Tao (pseudonym) is a "post-90s" who entered a pet food company two years ago and is mainly responsible for cat food testing.

Tasting cat food is part of the testing work. Every year, he tastes nearly 100 kinds of cat food.

　　How to understand cat tastes as a human?

The answer given by Xiaotao is: "Eating a lot can sum up experience."

　　For example, for granular cat food, cats generally prefer moderate hardness and brittleness.

If the cat food is particularly hard and not brittle to bite, it is necessary to consider whether the humidity of the cat food is high and whether there is a problem in the drying process.

　　Even if you eat the same cat food, different tasters may have different judgments.

Therefore, "this experience is just a personal one."

　　"It's just a preliminary judgment for people to taste cat food." Xiaotao said that with the development of technology, some companies are currently introducing professional testing methods, such as further testing with machines and analysis with big data methods.

　　Whether a cat food is good or bad, fragrant or not, in the end, "the cat has the final say".

The complete cat food testing process includes palatability testing, nutritional and palatability testing, and physical testing.

These tests, cats, are testers.

　　Cat food must not only attract cats to eat in a short period of time, but also make cats like to eat it all the time, which requires a palatability test.

Cats like to eat fresh meat, and they also need high-protein food to supplement nutrition. Therefore, in addition to seeing whether cats will eat for a long time, the nutrition of cat food should also be tested.

After letting the cat eat a cat food for a long time, use the experimental data to judge whether the cat's various indicators are normal.

　　As a cat food taster, Xiao Tao believes that only relying on the experience of cat food tasters to judge the quality of cat food is not enough to support the launch of cat food.

"Now, the work of cat food tasters is more of a part of quality control."

　　entrepreneur:

　　Tasting is an important part of quality control

　　Someone earns 20,000 yuan a month

　　In addition to the testers in the brand enterprises, there are also cat food tasters who started their own businesses. The "post-95" girl Huang Lanxi is one of them.

　　At the end of 2018, after finishing her 6-year study abroad career in Australia, Huang Lanxi decided to return to China to start her own business.

In May 2019, Huang Lanxi's team launched the first chicken-flavored pet milk tea, and later launched pet beer.

Now, her shop's monthly turnover is about 400,000 to 500,000 yuan.

　　Huang Lanxi herself is a pet owner with 3 dogs and 2 cats. During the raising process, she often found anxiety about pet food from young people.

　　As a pet owner, every time she receives a pet product, she will try it.

The more you taste, the more likely you will be able to distinguish the material of the ingredients.

For example, whether it contains too much starch.

And judge the quality of a cat food.

"Cats and dogs have 8-10 times better taste than humans. We can judge from the perspective of taste, what meat they like to eat and the quality of the ingredients." In addition, cats and dogs can't ingest salty food, and they can also taste it by tasting it. roughly judge.

　　In fact, Huang Lanxi said that for humans, most of the food for cats and dogs will be "tasteful" or "too fishy", but in the end, whether these products are good or bad is up to pets.

　　Many of her friends and colleagues have pets at home, plus their own, forming a team of pet food testers.

The developed milk tea needs to be tasted by pets to test the palatability.

In her team, the role of the pet taster is more inclined to quality control-every time she develops a milk tea, she will sample and taste it. "After all, pet tasters can't speak."

　　Huang Lanxi believes that quality control is very important for any enterprise, and cat food tasters are an important part of pet food quality control.

She is also considering setting up a team of cat food tasters to make the field of pet milk tea more and more refined, and to achieve personalized customization of pet food according to the nutritional needs of different dog and cat categories.

　　From a professional point of view, she mentioned that this profession is still relatively unpopular, and most of them exist in the form of nutritionists or formulators.

Salaries vary from city to city.

For example, in Shanghai, the monthly salary can reach 10,000-20,000 yuan.

In Xi'an, it starts at 7,000 yuan.

　　Chengdu Business Daily-Red Star News reporter Peng Xiangping