JP2003000156A - Food for pet - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a food for pets with low contents of nutrients or calories without causing a body weight increase, a deviation, etc., from nutritional balance even when the food is ingested until a sense of fullness is obtained. SOLUTION: This food for the pets is characterized as comprising a food material without substantially affecting the ingestion nutritional balance of the pets, e.g. glucomannan and a soup, etc., of fishes and shellfishes or animal or bird meats. The food for the pets does not substantially affect the ingestion nutritional balance.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a pet food of low calorie and low nutrition, which does not cause excessive intake of calories and nutritional components even if it is eaten until a feeling of fullness is reached.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, pets are often kept as important members of a family, and pet foods suitable for each animal have been put on the market as basic foods. Currently, the pet foods on sale are comprehensive nutrition foods,
Almost all the nutritional components needed for a pet to survive,
It is blended in a well-balanced manner to varying degrees. In addition to this, pet foods such as jerky and niboshi are processed for pets to treat pets as hungry and rewards for pets. Processed foods with only specific nutrients are sold as snacks for pets.

However, these snacks for pets and pet foods with high taste are generally high in calories, and because they have high taste, the pet causes overeating, which causes obesity due to excessive calorie intake and upset of nutritional balance. It causes a lot of diseases such as sickness, diabetes and many other diseases, and it is a serious problem for owners. Therefore, in order to control obesity, methods such as limiting the amount of feed or switching to low-calorie, high-fiber pet food have been adopted, but by limiting the amount of feed, vitamins and minerals are essential. Nutrient intake is low, which can compromise your health.

Many low-calorie, high-fiber pet foods and the like have low palatability, so that they do not consume a sufficient amount, which may lead to nutritional deficiency and impair health. In addition, even if the pet food suits the taste of the pet and prefers to eat, the pet food often feels hungry faster than the normal food, and the pet demands more food. If the owner loses this requirement, he or she will eventually give more than the prescribed amount, and even with low-calorie pet food, the total nutritional balance of vitamins and minerals and the like may be lost, and health may be impaired.

In order to solve such a situation, a pet food having an obesity-preventing effect characterized by the addition of indigestible dextrin has been proposed (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 7-59517). It suppresses obesity by suppressing blood sugar level elevation, improving serum lipids, regulating bowel action, etc. If pets who are not satisfied with the prescribed feeding amount eat up to fullness, they will not become obese, but excess of minerals etc. May cause ingestion.

Further, "heterogeneous composition based on meat or fish" described in JP-A-7-59518.
Is a material for improving the texture of pet food, and relates to a gel having a high water content, which is produced by mixing meat or fish with a gelling agent mainly containing carrageenan. In this pet food, no consideration has been given to the reduction of the contents of calories and minerals, so that if a pet eats a large amount, it may cause excessive intake of nutrients such as calories and minerals, which may impair the health condition. Excessive intake of vitamins and minerals causes various diseases such as anorexia and hypertension. Especially in cats, ureteral stones caused by excessive intake of magnesium are a serious problem. Therefore, it is desirable not to ingest not only calories but also nutrients more than necessary.

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From such a situation,
Basically, if you don't change the pet food you are currently using and only give the prescribed amount of your pet's ideal weight, and your pet complains of hunger and requests the addition of food, or if you want to give a treat as a treat In addition to being low-calorie, it contains few nutrients, and pet foods that pets are willing to eat will satisfy both pets and owners, and prevent diseases caused by obesity and excessive intake of nutrients. Because you can, you can maintain a healthy condition. However, no conventional pet food has such an effect.

[0008]

Means for Solving the Problems As a result of intensive studies to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present inventors have completed a pet food having the above-mentioned effects. The present invention includes the following inventions.

(1) A pet food for giving a total nutritional food necessary for keeping a pet's health condition to a pet, which has a substantial effect on the nutritional balance of the pet. Pet foods that contain no food ingredients.

(2) The food material contains glucomannan and soup of seafood or poultry meat, which substantially affects the nutritional balance of pet intake according to item (1). No pet food.

(3) In addition to the glucomannan, the pet food according to (2), which further contains another vegetable gum.

(4) The pet food according to item (3), wherein the other plant gum is one or more selected from carrageenan, locust bean gum, xanthan gum, pectin and agar.

(5) 100 parts by weight of the pet food contains 0.1 to 50 parts by weight of meat of seafood, meat of birds and birds or powders thereof. The pet food according to any one of 4).

(6) In any one of the items (1) to (5), 0.01 to 10 parts by weight of water-soluble dietary fiber is contained in 100 parts by weight of the pet food. The described pet food.

(7) The pet food according to any one of items (1) to (6), wherein the pet food is in a gel form.

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BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
As such, it is generally high in calories and nutrients. As a method of reducing calories and nutrients while maintaining the palatability of these ingredients, there is a method of extracting soup from the ingredients. If it is soup, the taste of the material is sufficiently felt, and since calories and nutritional components are diluted, even if you ingest the same weight of soup, the nutrient intake will be significantly lower than when eating the material To do.

However, a large amount of soup must be given in order to give a feeling of fullness just by allowing the soup to be drunk, and ingesting a large amount of water causes obesity. For this reason, it is more effective to process the soup into a form that is somewhat viscous or retainable and then give it a feeling of fullness with a small amount. Therefore, we examined gelatin, agar, carrageenan, pectin, glucomannan, etc. as thickening materials. However, gelatin is high in calories and agar has a high mineral content. Carrageenan is poorly formed by itself and requires the addition of potassium chloride during gelation.
Eating this may upset the mineral balance. Pectin is also a high-calorie gel that does not suit pets because it requires the addition of sugar and acid during gel formation.

Glucomannan, which is a purified konjak powder used in the present invention, has a protective effect even by itself, and has a low calorie and mineral content and is hardly digested and absorbed in the body. Not only does it affect the nutritional balance of but also the taste. Therefore, by adding glucomannan to the soup obtained from seafood or poultry meat, it is possible to make a pet food having shape retention and water retention.

As the material of soup, the taste of pets,
Considering calorie, mineral content, cost, easiness of acquisition and processing, consumer image, and the like, it is preferable to use chicken fillet, cuttlefish, niboshi and the like. By using glucomannan and further using it together with the above-mentioned seafood or poultry meat soup, a pet food capable of achieving the object of the present invention could be obtained.

The pet food of the present invention is generally a semi-solid food obtained by forming a gel with glucomannan, but depending on the case, it may be a liquid food or paste food. . In this case, by including the plant gum, it is possible to obtain a pet food having further high shape retention and water retention.

As such a vegetable gum, carrageenan, locust bean gum, xanthan gum, pectin or agar is preferably used, but it is not limited thereto.

When a gel is formed using the above materials, if the gel strength is too high, there is a possibility that the throat will be clogged when the pet eats. For this reason, it is preferable that the ranges of glucomannan are 0.1 to 1.0% by weight, carrageenan is 0.1 to 1.5% by weight, and locust bean gum is 0.05 to 1.0% by weight. However, the pH and salt concentration of the soup affect the gel strength, and are not limited to this range.

Further, as in the case of human beings, even pets having a solid substance such as fruit in the jelly have higher preference than eating only jelly, and the satisfaction after eating can be obtained. Therefore, seafood and livestock meat, preferably the same material as the soup stock or the raw material of the soup, bonito, simmered, chopped, etc. If it is made into an easy-to-use form and contained in the above-mentioned pet food, calories and nutrients will increase slightly, but it will be more satisfied than those that do not contain it, and low-calorie and low-nutrients that pets prefer to eat. Pet foods can be obtained.

Since dietary fiber is not decomposed and absorbed in the intestinal tract, it is said that it not only has low calories, but also helps to improve obesity and the intestinal environment, but in order for dietary fiber to exert its effect. Is required to take a certain amount. Glucomannan is also one type of dietary fiber, but glucomannan has a high cost, and it becomes expensive when it is mixed in a large amount. When combined with other gums,
If the content is high, the gel becomes hard as described above, and the pet may block the throat when eaten.

Therefore, the purified powder of water-soluble dietary fiber was added to
By adding 01 to 10% by weight, compared to those containing only glucomannan as dietary fiber, the taste, texture and gel strength are appropriate, and the raw material cost can be kept low. It is possible to obtain pet foods having low calories and low nutrients and high dietary fiber content.

As the water-soluble dietary fiber, galactomannan, indigestible dextrin, polydextrose, water-soluble soybean polysaccharide and corn fiber can be preferably used. However, if too much dietary fiber is blended, not only the texture will be deteriorated, but also inconvenience such as dyspepsia will occur, so it is preferable not to further increase the blended amount.

The pet food of the present invention contains glucomannan or mainly glucomannan, which has low calorie, gel-forming property and thickening property, in a soup obtained from a relatively low-calorie material among seafood and poultry meat. It is a food for pets that contains the plant gel that it has, but when mixing it, try to keep the amount of calories, minerals, vitamins, etc. as low as possible, and adjust the gel strength to the level that pets can eat. Good to do.

The pet food of the present invention is particularly suitable for pets, such as dogs or cats, which have many obesity problems.
In general, pet foods are classified into basic foods that are given as a normal diet and special foods that contain or restrict certain ingredients that are given to pets that have a high taste for pets such as jerky and biscuits or pets with diseases. But
The pet food of the present invention is suitably provided as a snack.

[0029]

The present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the following examples, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

Example 1 300 g of chicken breast was boiled with 1200 ml or more of boiling water,
1 L of chicken fillet soup was obtained by filtering this. To 970 g of this chicken fillet soup, 30 g of glucomannan was added, dissolved and cooled to obtain a paste-like low-calorie low-nutrient pet food.

The obtained pet food was fed to 10 healthy dogs and 10 cats respectively. 9 out of 10 dogs and 1 out of 10 cats
Eight out of 0 animals preferred to eat the pet food. Even dogs and cats, who did not like it, became to eat by mixing it with commercially available pet food.

Example 2 1 L of chicken fillet soup was obtained in the same manner as in Example 1. Glucomannan 3 in 992.5 g of this chicken breast soup
g, carrageenan 3.5 g, locust bean gum 1.
By adding 0 g, heating and melting, and cooling, a pet food with low calorie and low nutrition was obtained.

The pet food thus obtained was in the form of a jelly having a high shape-retaining property by mixing carrageenan and the like.
When this was given to 10 healthy dogs and 10 cats as in Example 1, all the dogs and cats ate the above pet food. Further, both the appearance and the ease of handling were improved over those of Example 1.

Example 3 1 L of chicken fillet soup was obtained in the same manner as in Example 1. Glucomannan 3 in 952.5 g of this chicken soup
g, carrageenan 3.5 g, locust bean gum 1.
0 g was added, the mixture was heated and dissolved, and 40 g of boiled chicken meat after removing the soup was added and cooled to obtain a pet food with low nutrition and low calorie content.

When the pet food prepared in Example 2 and the food prepared in this Example were arranged side by side and fed to the same dogs and cats as in Example 1, 6 out of 10 dogs and 10 out of 10 cats were found. Six of them ate the one of this example first. This was repeated 3 times, and in each case, the number of the ones of this example was eaten first. As a result, by putting the meat in the gel, a pet food with higher taste was obtained.

Example 4 1 L of chicken breast soup was obtained in the same manner as in Example 1. Here, in 962.5 g of chicken fillet soup, 3 g of glucomannan, 3.5 g of carrageenan, 1.0 g of locust bean gum, and 30 g of indigestible dextrin are added, and a pet with low calorie and low nutrition is obtained by heating and dissolving and then cooling. Got food for me.

Example 5 Healthy cat 1 having the same weight as in Example 1 but not less than 4 kg and less than 5 kg
0 animals were divided into 2 groups of 5 animals each. For one week before the start of the experiment, 70 g of a dry type of commercially available cat food having a low calorie was given per day. This is the standard feeding rate for cats weighing more than 4 kg and less than 5 kg. Continuing from this,
During the experiment, 70 g of a dry type of low-calorie cat food commercially available per day was used as the basic feeding, and in the test section, in addition to the basic feeding, the pet food 25 produced in Example 4 was used.
Additional g was given.

On the other hand, in the control group, in addition to the above-mentioned basic feeding, 25 g of canned commercial cat food, which is highly palatable, was additionally fed. The diet was continued for 4 weeks and changes in body weight were recorded. The results are shown in Fig. 1. As is clear from the results of FIG. 1, in the test plot to which the pet food prepared in Example 4 was given, the increase in weight was significantly suppressed as compared with the control plot.

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EFFECTS OF THE INVENTION Generally, the cause of obesity of pets is excessive food or snacks, and when pets demand, the owner tends to give more than a prescribed amount of foods or snacks. If you give the pet food that you have been given until the prescribed amount of feed at the ideal weight of the pet and later request a meal or give a treat to your pet as a reward, it will not adversely affect your pet's health There has never been such a food for pets.

Since the pet food of the present invention is made of a material having a high preference for pets, eating the pet food will give the pet a satisfactory feeling. Furthermore, since the pet food of the present invention has a low content of nutrients such as calories, vitamins and minerals, it does not cause excessive intake of calories and nutrients even when given in large amounts, and causes obesity due to overeating, adult diseases, and other diseases. Can be suppressed, and the above object can be achieved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the results (weight change) of Example 5.

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Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A pet food for providing a pet with a comprehensive nutritional food necessary for keeping the pet in good health, which does not substantially affect the nutritional balance of the pet. Pet food containing food ingredients. 2. The pet that does not substantially affect the nutritional balance of pets according to claim 1, wherein the food material contains glucomannan and soup of seafood or poultry meat. For food. 3. The pet food according to claim 2, further comprising another vegetable gum in addition to the glucomannan. 4. The pet food according to claim 3, wherein the other plant gum is one or more selected from carrageenan, locust bean gum, xanthan gum, pectin and agar. 5. The pet food 100 parts by weight further contains 0.1 to 50 parts by weight of seafood meat, beef bird meat or powder thereof.
5. The pet food according to any one of items 4 to 4. 6. The pet food according to claim 1, further comprising 0.01 to 10 parts by weight of water-soluble dietary fiber in 100 parts by weight of the pet food. Food. 7. The pet food according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the food is gel-shaped.