Friends who raise cats and dogs
Are you as curious as I am about the taste of cat food and dog food?
even really tasted it?
You may be very suitable for a special profession that I want to introduce to you today- pet food taster!
Pet food taster
Every day special appraisal of food for cats, dogs and dogs, you can easily get an annual salary of hundreds of thousands!
The entry guide for pet food testers with hundreds of thousands of annual salary
First, if you want to be a pet food tester, you must first have a master or even a doctorate degree in animal nutrition from _ strong8strong.
Second, you must have experience in raising cats and dogs or specific animals, and be familiar with their habits and tastes. This requires a lot of training and experimentation. Even eat and live with dogs or cats, and observe their habits
Eat and live with dogs
Third, pet food testers rarely conduct open recruitment due to their unpopular occupations and want to To get this job, you need to call the pet company's R&D department for consultation. If your conditions are right, they will arrange an interview.
Big companies have special tasters
Finally, after successfully passing the interview, there will be experienced pet food tasters to take you to learn more professional pet food tastes. And teach some essential knowledge of pet tastes and ingredients. After successfully passing the internship period, you can get 's annual salary of about US$30,000 , which is 180,000 RMB .
Dog food taster
The senior taster who teaches you is usually a PhD in animal nutrition, and their annual salary is more than US$60,000 in and even more! It is not uncommon for to earn hundreds of thousands of yuan in annual revenue.
After becoming a qualified pet food tasting person, you will find that tasting is only the best part of your job.
Work flow of pet food testers
After the company's new pet food research and development, samples will be distributed to the testers first. There are cat food, dog food, and even pig feed (specially for pet pigs), as well as an evaluation form.
Let's assume that the food we are trying to eat is a kind of dog food.
To become a qualified taster, you must first pretend that you are a dog: learn to look at things from a dog's perspective.
Trial work
First of all, the color world of dogs is very monotonous, only a limited number of colors can be distinguished. You have to make up for the look of dog food in the dog's eyes. And whether this color of dog food can arouse the dog's appetite.
Secondly, dogs have a much more sensitive sense of smell than humans, and you have to feel every taste of dog food. Some dogs don’t have fish in their recipes, so you have to refuse dog food that smells like fish.
is the same as what a dog eats
After carefully observing the dog food, you need to score the color, smell, and shape according to your own knowledge and feelings.Provide authoritative opinions for subsequent improvements.
After scoring, you enter the tasting session that everyone loves to hear!
No matter what the dog food in front of you looks like! You have to pick up the dog food and stuff it into your mouth, chew it carefully to taste the taste. Analyze whether the dog likes this taste. Then record your analysis and whether the dog food is sweet, salty, bitter, or astringent.
Internet celebrity-level tasters have an annual salary of about 60,000 US dollars.
Pet food companies that can afford pet food quality inspectors generally use excellent materials. You can taste all kinds of ingredients. Beef, chicken, tuna , dried fruit and so on. Moreover, it is absolutely nutritious and uses high-quality materials. Even, it’s cleaner and hygienic than the takeaway you ordered. After all, many noble or high-end dogs themselves are preparing for various dog competitions, and naturally they also have high standards and high requirements for dog food.
High-standard dog food
As a pet food tester, you will not only earn a lot of money, but also don't have to worry about nutrition. Although some dog foods were developed without considering the nutritional needs of humans. Some of dog foods directly use raw meat or freeze-dried raw meat as raw materials. In the face of this type of dog food, you can spit the dog food directly after tasting the taste, and you have a high degree of freedom in your work!
After tasting the dog food, you are about to write a report on the taste and nutritional value of this dog food for the R&D department. After synthesizing the opinions of several pet testers, the dog food was modified in terms of raw materials or technology. This dog food will not be officially launched until all human and dog tasters have given good reviews. And you can also go home from get off work, looking forward to the pet food to be reviewed the next day.
This kind of work sounds very beautiful.
But! The pet taster is really a very relaxed listening,A profession that is actually very tiring. You spend most of your day writing nutrition reports and looking for papers on pet nutrition; or you can put all kinds of foods prepared for pets into your mouth. There are dry and rare foods in your mouth, which are very unpalatable. It’s also common to have some dog food; it’s not uncommon to eat a sample accidentally and cause gastrointestinal problems.
Sometimes, , a pet food tester, eats nearly a hundred newly developed foods a day. This is a great test for the taste of the taster. After many newcomers have finished their work, will feel loss of appetite, nausea and retching, and can't even eat normal meals.
In fact, the birth of the pet taster profession is related to a pet food crisis that broke out in the United States more than ten years ago. At that time, many family pets suffered from cancer because of long-term consumption of inferior dog food or cat food.
According to estimates by American scholars at the time, about 50% of elderly dogs and 33% of pet cats will die of cancer. Such a public opinion environment has forced big-name pet food companies to introduce policies to restore their reputation. Pet food tasters came into being. They used their professional knowledge and personal experience to regain the trust of pet owners!
Canned dog food in the supermarket
Nowadays, many pets have become part of the family. Some of them have pistachios at home, some are troublemakers at home, and some are the spirit of children after traveling far away. For sustenance, some are warm playmates who are alone in a foreign land. They are no longer ordinary cats and dogs, but an indispensable part of the family. And to ensure the food safety of these special family members may be the significance of the professional existence of pet food tasters.
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