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Pet food composition and method

a technology for pet food and composition, applied in the field of pet food composition and method, can solve the problems of inability to be packaged for appropriate commercial use, inability to retain added fat, and inability to dimensionally stable extruded particles, etc., and achieve the effect of low carbohydra

Inactive Publication Date: 2005-02-24
HILLS PET NUTRITION INC
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[0007] Further areas of applicability of the present invention will become apparent from the detailed description provided hereinafter. It should be understood that the detailed description and specific examples, while indicating the preferred embodiment of the invention, are intended for purposes of illustration only and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention.

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Additionally, the discrete particle can have difficulty retaining added fat, particularly when the fat is added to the outside of the particle, such as by spraying.
Such extruded particle is not dimensionally stable and can not be packaged for appropriate commercial use.
Additionally where fat absorption can be a problem, the article matrix is able to absorb and retain fat.

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[0049] The same pet food as in Comparative Example 2 was produced under the same operating conditions but was processed with the presence of a Benturi plate (Wenger Part No. 28299-3) with a 0.35 inch opening and a total diameter of 5.65 inches. A strong kibble was produced with less than 5% fines. The kibble did not have a fat absorption issue since less than 1% of the total fat was lost from the product.

[0050] As noted above, in addition to methods for producing a dimensionally stable low carbohydrate pet food, the composition has been found to induce ketosis which leads to weight loss. Over the course of a 28 day study, the efficacy of four dry formulations as set forth in the Table I with varying levels of carbohydrate NFE (14.2, 16.9, 18.6, and 21.6%) for inducing dietary ketosis in thirty-two obese cats during weight loss was evaluated. As demonstrated in Table II below, the foods were effective for weight loss in the obese cats in that, they lost an average of 0.243 kg of wei...

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Abstract

The present invention relates to dimensionally stable low carbohydrate pet food products and method for producing such products. The resulting pet food products are capable of inducing desired levels of ketosis in pets which in turn can lead to weigh loss or weight control.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10 / 405,742 filed on Apr. 2, 2003. The disclosure of the above application(s) is (are) incorporated herein by reference.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] Dry pet foods for dogs and cats have been primarily prepared by extrusion. A heated food mass which is sufficiently plastic to be extruded using an ordinary screw extruder wherein expansion of the food occurs is worked in the extruder and emerges from the extruder usually in a strand or flat type rectangular sheet, depending upon the die shape, and is then cut and / or shaped into discrete particles. In this manner, dry diets utilizing kibbles, a particular discrete particle, are prepared. These kibbles should be dimensionally stable. That is, they retain the same shape as when immediately prepared and then packaged. They do not spontaneously crumble or lose fines to any great extent, even when subjected to mi...

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IPC IPC(8): A23K1/00A23K1/16A23K1/18
CPCA23K1/003A23K1/1631Y10S426/805A23K1/1846A23K1/1853A23K1/164A23K40/20A23K20/147A23K20/158A23K50/40A23K50/42A23K40/25
Inventor CLARK, HARRY M.SCHOENHERR, WILLIAM D.COWLEY, CRAIG R.FRIESEN, KIM G.
Owner HILLS PET NUTRITION INC
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