JPH04222560A - Pet food for dog and cat - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a pet food for dogs and cats, excellent in palatability and edible by animals for pets such as the dogs and cats without cloying. CONSTITUTION:A pet food for dogs and cats is obtained by adding peptides, prepared by enzymically hydrolyzing animal proteins and containing >=80 wt.% thereof constructed from peptides composed of 3 to 20 amino acids and a butter to other ingredients. The aforementioned peptides may also be oligopeptides. Thereby, the pet food for dogs and cats, remarkably improved in palatability as compared with that of conventional products and edible by animals without cloying is provided.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a pet food for dogs and cats with excellent palatability.

0002

[Prior Art and Problems to be Solved] Pet foods include dry food, semi-moist food, and canned wet food. Dry food is made by adding meat meal, chicken meal, soybean oil lees, brewer's yeast, etc. to grain flour such as corn or wheat flour, which is then pressurized, kneaded, and extruded using an extruder.In order to improve palatability, oils and fats, etc. are added to dry food. Obtained by coating with various extracts, flavors, etc. For semi-moist food, moisturizer,
There are some differences in the manufacturing method, as anti-mold agents are added.
The basic raw material composition is the same as for dry food.

Although these dry foods and semi-moist foods are easy to handle for pet owners, they have drawbacks such as being less palatable than wet foods or getting tired of eating them quickly. Therefore, in order to improve the palatability of dry foods and semi-moist foods, efforts have been made to add butter or its oil-soluble or water-soluble fractions (Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 188350/1983), but the effects are still not satisfactory. It's not something you should do.

[0004] Therefore, the object of the present invention is to provide a product with excellent palatability and
To provide pet food for dogs and cats that pet animals such as dogs and cats can eat without getting tired of it.

[0005]

[Means for Solving the Problems] The present inventors have discovered that by adding peptides and butter to pet food, the palatability for pet animals is significantly improved, and the animals can eat it without getting bored. Completed the invention. That is, the present invention consists of a pet food for dogs and cats, which is made by adding butter and a peptide obtained by enzymatically decomposing animal protein, of which 80% by weight is a peptide consisting of 3 to 20 amino acids.

[0006] Animal proteins for obtaining the peptides used in the present invention include animal meat, poultry meat, fish and shellfish meat, and animal meat and poultry meat are preferred. This animal protein is decomposed into a peptide using a proteolytic enzyme such as protease. It is desirable that 80% by weight or more of this peptide is composed of a peptide consisting of 3 to 20 amino acids.

[0007] This peptide is preferably an oligopeptide having 10 or less amino acids. Furthermore, as the butter used in the present invention, not only ordinary butter but also oil-soluble fractions or water-soluble fractions of butter are effective.

The pet food of the present invention can be obtained, for example, by coating the surface of a pet food produced by a conventional method with the peptide and butter. It can also be obtained by kneading it into feed ingredients in the final manufacturing process. For semi-moist food, the latter method is suitable. The above amount of peptide added varies depending on the type of pet animal, feed material type, feed form, and pet food type (dry, semi-moist), but when mixed with feed material, it is 3 to 10% by weight, or When coating the surface of dry food or semi-moist food produced by a conventional method, the amount is preferably 1 to 7% by weight.

[0009] The amount of butter added also varies depending on various factors, as with peptides, but when mixed with feed ingredients, it is 0.5 to 5% by weight, and when added to dry food or semi-moist food produced by conventional methods, it is 0.5 to 5% by weight. When coating the surface, the amount is preferably 0.1 to 10% by weight. If the amount of both peptide and butter added is less than the above-mentioned amount, the effect of improving palatability cannot be sufficiently obtained, and even if more amount is added, no increase in the effect can be expected.

[0010] The other raw materials for the pet food for dogs and cats of the present invention may be any commonly used raw materials. Moreover, the pet food for dogs and cats of the present invention can be suitably fed to pet animals other than dogs and cats.

[0011]

【Example】

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[Examples 1 to 4 and Comparative Examples 1 to 2] The basic raw material compositions shown in Table 1 were pulverized, mixed, added with water, extruded using a heating and pressure extruder, and dried to obtain pellets. The pellets were coated with tallow, butter and peptides shown in Table 2 to obtain dog food.

[0013]

[Table 1]

[0014]

[Table 2]

The following preference test was conducted on the dog foods obtained in each of the above examples. Test dogs: 5 Shiba Inu dogs, 5 Beagle dogs Feeding method
A total of three samples (200 g each), one of the examples and Comparative Examples 1 and 2, were placed and fed to each dog. Test days: 4 days
Measuring standards for food intake Measuring food intake 20 minutes after feeding.

Determination of feed intake Ratio of feed intake of each dog food to total food intake
is expressed in weight%. The results of the preference test are shown in Table 3 below.

[0017]

[Table 3]

[0018]

Examples 5 to 8 The basic raw material compositions shown in Table 4 were pulverized, mixed, added with water, extruded using a heating and pressure extruder, and dried to obtain pellets. The pellets were coated with tallow, butter and peptides shown in Table 5 to obtain cat food.

[0019]

[Table 4]

[0020]

[Table 5]

The following preference test was conducted on the cat foods obtained in each of the above examples. 10 test cats
Feeding method: 1 item from each example and a total of 3 items from comparative examples 3 and 4
80 g of each sample was placed and fed to each cat.

[0022] Number of test days: 4 days
Measuring standard for food intake The food intake was measured 24 hours after feeding. Determining the amount of food consumed The percentage of each cat food in the total amount of food consumed
show. The results of the preference test are shown in Table 6 below.

[0023]

[Table 6]

[0024]

[Effects of the Invention] According to the present invention, there is provided a pet food which has significantly superior palatability compared to conventional products and which animals can eat without getting tired of it.

Claims (2)

[Claims] Claim 1: A product for dogs and cats, characterized in that it is made by adding butter and a peptide obtained by enzymatically decomposing animal protein, of which 80% by weight or more consists of a peptide consisting of 3 to 20 amino acids. pet food. 2. The pet food for dogs and cats according to claim 1, wherein the peptide is an oligopeptide.