JP2005040059A - Pet food - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pet food preventing overweight of pets. <P>SOLUTION: This pet food is added with fat burning amino acids. The fat burning amino acids comprise single bodies of four kinds of alanine, proline, lysine and arginine, or their mixture. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to food for pets such as dogs.

Today, pet food, known as dog food or cat food, is a special processed food made by adding appropriate dairy products, vegetables, vitamins, etc. to fish, chicken, or animal meat, and is seasoned to the pet's taste. Often.
The pet food for dogs is often used as a pet food containing a lot of bird and animal meat, and is intended to enhance the appetite of the pet.
Moreover, the pet food for cats is often a pet food containing a lot of fish meat.

Also, dry type pet food with low water content given separately when feeding, moderately moist semi-moist type pet food that prepares water separately, wet type pet food that contains a lot of water, etc. Manufactured so that pets can be fed easily.
In addition, small dogs and cats are often kept indoors today, and additives having a deodorizing effect on feces may be added. And as shown by patent document 1, the nutrition composition suitable for the food which reduces the weight of pets, such as a cat, is also proposed.
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As mentioned above, pet food is devised today to facilitate the feeding of pets while increasing the appetite of pets, but in urban areas, pets are often raised indoors, Since there are few spaces suitable for walking and exercising outdoors and obesity is also increasing in pets, pet breeders who have been able to prevent pet obesity have recently been desired. .
The present invention provides a pet food that meets such needs of pet breeders.

The present invention provides a pet food to which a fat burning amino acid is added.
Glucose or creatine phosphate, which burns faster than fat, is usually used as an energy source during exercise, and after glucose is reduced, lipase breaks down fat into free fatty acids and burns as an energy source However, the fat burning amino acid added to the pet food of the present invention has an action of activating lipase which is an enzyme that breaks down fat among 20 types of amino acids constituting animal proteins, When aerobic exercise is performed when body fat is broken down into free fatty acids, the free fatty acids are burned to produce a ketone body that is a fat metabolite, which generates energy. Even a short amount of exercise can burn and reduce more body fat.

As the fat burning amino acids, alanine, proline, lysine and arginine among amino acids are used, and these four types are used alone, preferably mixed and added to pet food.
The addition amount is 0.2 to 1.0 weight percent with respect to the pet food.
Thus, by adding 0.2 to 1.0 weight percent of the pet food weight to the pet food, a necessary amount of amino acid can be ingested in accordance with the amount of pet food.

This addition amount is preferably 0.2 to 0.8 weight percent for the wet type and semi-moist type, and 0.5 to 1.0 weight percent for the dry type.
In this way, dry type pet food is often added to dry type, and dry type pet food may be combined with other pet foods. This is because a predetermined amount of fat burning amino acid is consumed even with a small amount of intake.

The pet food to which the fat burning amino acid is added is a dog food.
That is, alanine, proline, lysine, and arginine that promote the burning of body fat for humans could clearly confirm the effects of promoting the decomposition and burning of body fat for dogs.

Thus, since the pet food to which the fat burning amino acid is added can ingest the fat burning amino acid, the body fat can be reduced even with a small amount of exercise.
For this reason, obesity of a pet can be prevented.

In the present invention, a fat-burning amino acid of about 0.2 to 0.8 weight percent is added to a wet type or semi-moist type dog food or cat food, and 0.5 to 1. About 0 weight percent of fat burning amino acid is added.
Examples of the fat burning amino acid include alanine, proline, lysine, arginine, and the like. These amino acids are added to a dog food or a cat food in a single form or in a mixed state.

Of the 10 beagle dogs, 5 are fed with mixed powder of amino acids mixed in dextrin powder, the other 5 are fed pet food sprinkled with 100% dextrin target powder, and walk for 30 minutes as an exercise. I did it.
The components of the mixed powder in which amino acids are mixed into this dextrin powder are 10% alanine, 10% proline, 5% lysine, 5% arginine, and 70% dextrin, and include 300 mg of fat burning amino acid in 1 gram of the mixed powder. As shown in Table 1, 1 gram of the mixed powder or target powder was given to 5 kg of the dog's body weight.

And the blood free fatty acid and the ketone body in the blood of blood collected before feeding and blood collected after 30 minutes of exercise were measured.
As a result, the ketone body in the blood after exercise is 1.76 times the average value of the sample fed with the mixed powder-added food, whereas the average value of the sample fed with the target powder-added food is The average value was 1.64 times the value before feeding.
That is, a large amount of ketone bodies, which are fat metabolites, was detected in the specimen fed with the mixed powder-added food.

Moreover, the value of the free fatty acid in blood is also 0.736 times the average value of the sample fed with the mixed powder-added food compared to the value before feeding, whereas the average value of the sample fed with the target powder-added food Became 0.485 times the value before feeding.
Therefore, in the specimen fed with the mixed powder-added food, a large amount of free fatty acid was burned and a large amount of ketone body was produced, but the decrease in free fatty acid was small and more body fat was decomposed. Can understand.

40 male 10-week-old ICR mice with a 2-week training period were used, and a 12-hour fast was performed during the experiment.
Of these 40 heads, 12 were taken as a pre-administration subject group, and blood free fatty acids and ketone bodies were measured.
Furthermore, 10 out of 40 heads were orally administered with 0.5 mL of a 4% aqueous solution of amino acid to form a measurement target group, and 10 out of 40 heads were orally administered with 0.5 mL of a 4% aqueous solution of dextrin. The comparison target group.
The amino acid 4 percent aqueous solution is obtained by dissolving an amino acid in which alanine: proline: lysine: arginine is mixed at a ratio of 2: 2: 1: 1 in water.

Then, the measurement target group and the comparison target group are allowed to perform a swimming exercise in a warm water bath, and after 15 minutes, all blood samples are collected from each of the five measurement target groups and the comparison target group to obtain free fatty acids and ketone bodies in the blood. After the measurement, each of the remaining 5 animals in the measurement target group and the comparison target group was allowed to perform a swimming exercise for 15 minutes, followed by a swimming exercise in a warm water bath for 30 minutes. And ketone bodies were measured.
As a result, as for the value of the ketone body, the average value of 12 subject groups before administration is 573, the average value of 5 measurement target groups after 15 minutes exercise is 842, and the comparison target group after 15 minutes exercise is the same. The average value of 5 heads is 612, the average value of 5 measurement target groups after 30 minutes exercise is 851, and the average value of 5 comparison target groups after 30 minutes exercise is 707. As shown in the graph, many ketone bodies that are metabolites were detected in the measurement target group.

In addition, as for the value of the free fatty acid, the average value of 12 subjects before administration was 876, the average value of 5 subjects to be measured after 15 minutes exercise was 1324, and the same was obtained for comparison group 5 after 15 minutes exercise. The average value of the head is 980, the average value of the five measurement target groups after the 30-minute exercise is 1150, and the average value of the five comparison target groups after the 30-minute exercise is 1112. As shown in the graph, free fatty acids and ketone bodies increased in the measurement target group due to administration and exercise of fat burning amino acids.
For this reason, fat-burning amino acids that are effective for humans activate lipase in dogs and mice and promote the decomposition and burning of body fat, and in the same way, they also effectively break down and burn body fat in cats. It is.

The test powder is 10% alanine, 10% proline, 5% lysine, 5% arginine, 70% dextrin, and 100% dextrin as the target powder. Of 17 dogs, 5 were fed with pet food to which the target powder was added, 12 were fed with pet food to which the mixed powder was added, and body weight measurement was performed once a week for 4 weeks.
In addition, the mixed powder or target powder is added to the pet food according to the body weight in units of 1 gram so as to give 2 grams per 5 kilograms of the dog's body weight. At least 600 milligrams of amino acid was given per day.

  Table 3 shows the results of measuring the weight of each dog for each week, with the weight before administration being 100.

  As a result, as shown in Table 4, the body weight change rate was about 2.5% in the group administered with the target powder, and about 1.5% in the group administered with the mixed powder. Weight loss was observed.

As a result of the meal state, the amount of meal hardly changed, but the result that the bite was good was obtained.
Moreover, about 12 dogs of mixed powder administration, blood was collected before the start of the test and after the lapse of 4 weeks, and serum was separated to measure total cholesterol, neutral fat and HDL cholesterol in the serum. There were 8 dogs that fell by more than 20 percent. In addition, an increase in good cholesterol and a decrease in bad cholesterol were observed.

  The pet food according to the present invention can provide pet breeders with pet feed that can reduce body fat of pets and prevent diseases such as diabetes caused by obesity.

The graph which shows the quantity of the ketone body in a mouse | mouth. The graph which shows the quantity of the free fatty acid in a mouse | mouth.

Claims (5)

  Pet food characterized by the addition of fat burning amino acids.   The pet food according to claim 1, wherein the fat burning amino acids are alanine, proline, lysine, and arginine, and these four kinds are used alone or in combination.   The pet food according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the addition amount is 0.2 to 1.0 weight percent with respect to the pet food.   The addition amount is 0.2 to 0.8 weight percent for wet type and semi-moist type, and 0.5 to 1.0 weight percent for dry type. The pet food according to any one of claims 1 to 3.   The pet food according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the pet food is a dog food.

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