Prey Animal Meat Feed Slugs with Glycerol and Salt
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing animal feed slugs for hunting animals, such as dogs, often contain high moisture levels and plant-based additions that lead to bacterial contamination, obesity, and tooth disease, and require protective gases or desiccants for shelf life, which are not natural or effective.
Innovation Solution
A formed meat composition with 45-100 parts of chopped prey animal meat, 0.1-20 parts of salt, and 0.01-10 parts of glycerol, blended with coarsely comminuted prey animal nutriment at room temperature, then frozen and chopped to create a homogeneous, spreadable mixture, resulting in a formed meat slug with improved texture and stability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If high moisture content is used in animal feed slugs, then the feed is soft and easy to consume, but it rapidly becomes bacterially contaminated and requires protective gases or desiccants for shelf life
Solution Approach 1:
The invention changes the moisture content parameter to a specific range of 30-70% by weight, optimizing it to prevent bacterial contamination while maintaining consumability. This parameter change eliminates the need for protective gases or desiccants, resolving the contradiction between ease of consumption and shelf life stability
Solution Approach 2:
The invention uses a composite material composition comprising meat as the main constituent (50-70% by weight), prey animal nutriment (30-50% by weight), and optional binders (0-20% by weight). This composite structure provides both the soft texture needed for consumption and the stability required for long shelf life without additional preservatives
2Shape
If binders are added to solidify soft feeds, then the feed structure is improved, but the natural meaty texture is only restored to a moderate degree and the feed promotes obesity and tooth diseases
Solution Approach 1:
The invention applies local quality by using prey animal nutriment specifically to provide structural components that mimic natural prey anatomy. The nutriment includes recognizable pieces and structures that offer both structural integrity and dental cleaning benefits, eliminating the need for excessive binders that cause obesity and tooth diseases
Solution Approach 2:
The invention replaces long-term harmful binders with a natural, short-lived structural approach using prey animal nutriment that provides temporary structure during chewing but does not accumulate in the digestive system like synthetic binders, thereby avoiding obesity and tooth disease
3Adaptability or versatility
If prey animal nutriment is added to meat-based feed, then the nutritional balance is improved, but the feed becomes softer and more prone to bacterial contamination
Solution Approach 1:
The invention optimizes the moisture content parameter to 30-70% by weight, which is sufficient to maintain nutritional balance and softness for consumption but low enough to prevent rapid bacterial growth. This parameter change resolves the contradiction between nutritional adaptability and contamination resistance
Solution Approach 2:
The invention creates a composite material system where meat (50-70% by weight) provides structural stability and low moisture content, while prey animal nutriment (30-50% by weight) provides nutritional balance. The synergistic combination maintains both nutritional versatility and contamination resistance
4Duration of action of stationary object
If desiccants are added to extend shelf life, then the storage duration is improved, but the desiccants may be inadvertently consumed by dogs and the packaging complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts and eliminates the need for desiccants by optimizing the moisture content parameter to 30-70% by weight during formulation. This extraction removes the harmful component and simplifies packaging to basic airtight sealing, resolving the contradiction between shelf life duration and packaging complexity
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution provides a longer shelf life, increased resistance to chewing and biting, and eliminates the need for protective gases or desiccants, allowing for airtight packaging and maintaining freshness for 6-12 months.
Implementation Method 1
intimately blending with coarsely comminuted, frozen prey animal meat until there is a homogeneous mixture at −20° C., c1) chopping the mixture at −20° C. with c2) addition of exclusively glycerol and salt, wherein c3) the temperature is controlled to a maximum value of −8° C.
Implementation Method 2
c2) addition of exclusively glycerol and salt, wherein c3) the temperature is controlled to a maximum value of −8° C. until c4) a homogeneous, spreadable mixture has been obtained
Data Source
AI summary
Proposed is a formed meat composition comprising additives, a process for producing a formed meat slug and a combined meat/formed meat slug. It is a disadvantage of established dried formed meat compositions that they require stabilizing desiccants and/or have an unnatural, open-pored fine structure. The novel solution proposed is a formed meat composition which, in addition to prey animal meat, glycerol and salt, merely contains additives in the form of prey animal nutriment. Also proposed is a process for producing a formed meat slug in which a common comminution of meat and additives in a manner modelled on hunting is carried out. Finally proposed is a combined meat/formed meat slug which comprises in its primary constituents only animal meat ingredients and the recited additives. The claimed subject matter provides the particular advantage that, despite additives, a denser, more stable and closed fine structure is achieved.