Composition and method for providing glutamine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10130113-B2
Application number	US-91710906-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 9, 2006
Priority date	Jun 9, 2005
Publication date	Nov 20, 2018
Grant date	Nov 20, 2018

Abstract

A process for preparing a glutamine-supplemented food product by contacting water and a nutritive base that predominantly comprises meat and carbohydrate with a peptide source of glutamine to form a wet mixture and heating the wet mixture at a temperature of from about 50° C. to about 105° C. for a time sufficient to cook the nutritive base. The process forms a cooked food composition comprising from about 60% to about 85% by weight water. The product is useful for feeding to an animal to increase glutamine absorption or to strengthen immune function.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A retorted pet food composition, consisting of:
a wet mixture heated at a temperature from about 50° C. to about 105° C. for a time sufficient to cook a nutritive base of the pet food composition;
wherein the wet mixture consists of:
an amount of water sufficient to provide the pet food composition with water in an amount of from about 60% by weight to about 85% by weight;
the nutritive base; and
a peptide source of glutamine comprising polypeptides and one or more of a partially hydrolyzed starch, a cellulose, and a partially hydrolyzed cellulose, wherein a weight average molecular weight of the polypeptides is no greater than about 12 kd;

wherein the wet mixture has a pH greater than or equal to 5.5 and less than or equal to 6.5; and
wherein the nutritive base comprises greater than 75% meat and carbohydrate, by weight of the nutritive base.

2. The food composition of claim 1 , wherein the wet mixture is heated at a temperature from about 65° C. to about 90° C. for a time sufficient to cook the nutritive base of the pet food composition.

3. The food composition of claim 1 , wherein the wet mixture is heated at a temperature from about 80° C. to about 85° C. for a time sufficient to cook the nutritive base of the pet food composition.

4. The food composition of claim 1 , wherein the wet mixture has a pH of 5.5.

5. The food composition of claim 1 , wherein the wet mixture has a pH of 6.5.

6. The food composition of claim 1 , wherein the amount of water present is sufficient to provide the food composition with water in the amount of from about 65% by weight to about 80% by weight.

7. The food composition of claim 1 , wherein the amount of water present is sufficient to provide the food composition with water in the amount of about 60% by weight.

8. The food composition of claim 1 , wherein the amount of water present is sufficient to provide the food composition with water in the amount of about 65% by weight.

9. The food composition of claim 1 , wherein the amount of water present is sufficient to provide the food composition with water in the amount of about 75% by weight.

10. The food composition of claim 1 , wherein the amount of water present is sufficient to provide the food composition with water in the amount of about 80% by weight.

11. The food composition of claim 1 , wherein the amount of water present is sufficient to provide the food composition with water in the amount of about 85% by weight.

12. The food composition of claim 1 , wherein a glutamine content contributed by the peptide source of glutamine is from about 0.5% to about 5% by weight of the food composition on the dry matter basis.

13. The food composition of claim 1 , wherein a glutamine content contributed by the peptide source of glutamine is from about 1% to about 4% by weight of the food composition on the dry matter basis.

14. The food composition of claim 1 , wherein no more than about 2% by weight of the glutamine in the peptide source of glutamine is in a form of free glutamine.

15. The food composition of claim 1 , wherein no more than about 1% by weight of the glutamine in the peptide source of glutamine is in a form of free glutamine.

16. The food composition of claim 1 , wherein the peptide source of glutamine further comprises a protein hydrolysate.

17. The food composition of claim 16 , wherein the protein hydrolysate is derived at least in part from a plant source.

18. The food composition of claim 16 , wherein the protein hydrolysate is derived at least in part from barley, oat, rye, triticale, wheat, soy, or combinations thereof.

19. The food composition of claim 16 , wherein the protein hydrolysate is derived at least in part from an animal source.

20. The food composition of claim 16 , wherein the protein hydrolysate is derived at least in part from a mammal source, an avian source, a reptilian source, an amphibian source, a fish source, an invertebrate source, or combinations thereof.

21. A glutamine-supplemented food product comprising a sealed retortable container containing the food composition of claim 1 .

22. The food product of claim 21 , wherein the container is a metal can, a retortable pouch, a retortable tray, a bottle, a jar, or a laminated paperboard retortable carton.

23. A device configured to communicate information about or instructions for feeding the food composition of claim 1 to an animal, comprising: a label, a brochure, an advertisement, a package insert, a computer-readable digital or optical medium, an audio presentation, a visual presentation, or one or more pages on a website, containing the information or the instructions.

24. The food composition of claim 1 , wherein the peptide source further comprises one or more organic oils.

25. The food composition of claim 24 , wherein the organic oils comprises one or more of soybean oil, safflower oil, palm oil, coconut oil, sunflower oil, peanut oil, and canola oil.

Assignees

• Gross Kathy
• Khoo Christina
• Colgate Palmolive Co

Inventors

• Gross Kathy
• Khoo Christina

Classifications

• A61P35/00

  Antineoplastic agents · CPC title

• A61P37/00

  Drugs for immunological or allergic disorders · CPC title

• A61P7/00

  Drugs for disorders of the blood or the extracellular fluid · CPC title

• A61P3/00

  Drugs for disorders of the metabolism (of the blood or the extracellular fluid A61P7/00) · CPC title

• A61P1/04

  for ulcers, gastritis or reflux esophagitis, e.g. antacids, inhibitors of acid secretion, mucosal protectants · CPC title