Food container compatible with automatic feeding assembly

A container suitable for storing a food for an animal therein, the container comprising:

• a) a container base defining a food cavity configured to retain food therein, wherein the container base includes:
• i) a storage portion having a bottom wall and one or more side cavity;
• ii) one or more flanges;
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• iii) one or more lid access features formed as one or more indentations in the one or more flanges;
• b) a lid removably affixed to the container base, wherein the lid includes a handling portion which includes a bottom surface of the lid which is exposed from the one or more flanges at the one or more indentations such that a leading edge is accessible, wherein the leading edge is an edge of the lid which is configured to be peeled or otherwise removed from the container first and wherein a trailing edge is an edge of the lid which is peeled last;
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• c) one or more seal members which removably affix the lid to the container base, wherein the one or more seal members include two or more stress rise features which area portion of the one or more seal members formed as a tapered point wherein at lest stress rise feature is located adjacent to and/or at the leading edge and at lest another stress feature is located to and/or at the trailing edge.