Pet food product

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025057189-A1
Application number	US-202418815456-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Aug 26, 2024
Priority date	Aug 16, 2017
Publication date	Feb 20, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

Pet food products are provided herein that comprise a reconstituted animal material, itself comprising an animal protein and micro-particulate denatured whey protein isolate having a volume distributed mean particle diameter (D[4,3]) between 37.81 μm and no more than 70 μm.

First claim

1 . A pet food product, comprising:
a reconstituted animal material comprising:
an animal protein; and
micro-particulate denatured whey protein isolate having a volume distributed mean particle diameter (D[4,3]) between 37.81 μm and no more than 70 μm.

2 . The pet food product of claim 1 , wherein the micro-particulate denatured whey protein isolate and the animal protein form a homogeneous matrix in the pet food product.

3 . The pet food product of claim 1 , wherein the animal protein does not comprise protein derived from functional organs of an animal.

4 . The pet food product of claim 1 , wherein the micro-particulate denatured whey protein isolate contains at least 90 wt % protein.

5 . The pet food product of claim 1 , wherein the reconstituted animal material comprises between 1-40 wt % of the micro-particulate denatured whey protein isolate by total weight of the dry matter of the reconstituted animal material.

6 . The pet food product of claim 1 , wherein the reconstituted animal material comprises between 10-17 wt % of the micro-particulate denatured whey protein isolate by total weight of the dry matter of the reconstituted animal material.

7 . The pet food product of claim 1 , wherein the reconstituted animal material comprises at least 50 wt % of the animal protein.

8 . The pet food product of claim 1 , wherein the animal protein comprises casein.

9 . The pet food product of claim 1 , wherein the reconstituted animal material comprises a vegetable protein.

10 . The pet food product of claim 1 , wherein the reconstituted animal material has a total protein content between 25-36 wt %.

11 . The pet food product of claim 1 , wherein the reconstituted animal material has a fiber content between 0.5-10 wt %.

12 . The pet food product of claim 1 , wherein the reconstituted animal material has a density between 0.8-1.2 g/mL.

13 . The pet food product of claim 1 , wherein the micro-particulate denatured whey protein isolate contains more than 1 wt % lactose and/or no more than 1 wt % fat.

14 . The pet food product of claim 1 , wherein the micro-particulate denatured whey protein isolate has a degree of denaturation of at least about 90%.

15 . The pet food product of claim 1 , wherein the micro-particulate denatured whey protein isolate has a volume distributed median particle diameter D(v,50) between 10 μm and 45 μm.

16 . The pet food product of claim 1 , wherein the pet food product is a nutritionally balanced dry or semi-moist pet food product.

17 . The pet food product of claim 1 , wherein the pet food product is a nutritionally balanced wet pet food product.

18 . The pet food product of claim 17 , wherein the wet pet food product is a loaf product consisting of the reconstituted animal material.

19 . The pet food product of claim 17 , wherein the wet pet food product is a chunks-in-sauce product comprising a ratio of reconstituted animal material to sauce between 20:80 to 90:10.

20 . The pet food product of claim 19 , wherein the chunks-in-sauce product has a total protein content between 5-20 wt %.

Assignees

• Mars Inc

Inventors

• Cheison Seronei Chelulei
• Murgueytio Riofrio Elvia Luigina

Classifications

• A23J3/08

  Dairy proteins · CPC title

• A23K50/48

  Moist feed · CPC title

• A23K50/45

  Semi-moist feed · CPC title

• A23K50/42

  Dry feed · CPC title

• A23K40/25

  by extrusion · CPC title