US 11,606,960 B2 · Food compositions and methods for preventing copper-associated hepatopathies

Abstract

A pet food containing naturally occurring copper that can be used as a prophylactic diet to prevent and/or reduce copper storage disease, dilated cardiomyopathy, adverse gastrointestinal food reactions, and/or food allergies in pets is provided. A method for forming this pet food containing naturally occurring copper includes: providing a formula selected from the group consisting of chicken meal, corn gluten, duck, rabbit, venison, fish, peas, potato, barley, rice, corn, and any combinations thereof; and adding one or more ingredients having a naturally occurring copper source to provide a naturally occurring copper concentration in the pet food composition from about 7.3 ppm to about 25.0 ppm, adjusted for a dry matter basis.

Claims15

Dependent claims

A pet food composition comprising:

a naturally occurring copper concentration derived from a non-chelated copper oxide and forming a total copper concentration within the pet food composition from about 7.3 ppm to about 25.0 ppm;
an omega-6 fatty acid and an omega-3 fatty acid wherein the omega-6 fatty acid to omega-3 fatty acid ratio is from about 5:1 to about 10:1;
at least one mineral including a zinc oxide concentration from about 150 mg/kg to about 1000 mg/kg;
two or more vitamins comprising:
a vitamin E concentration from about 300 IU/kg to about 1000 IU/kg;
and
a vitamin B6 concentration from about 2 mg/kg to about 50 mg/kg.

4 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/555,588Filed 29 Aug 2019 · us provisional application

Priority

31 Aug 2018

Published

US 2020/0068921 A15 Mar 2020

Granted

21 Mar 2023

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

A23K 20/30
Inorganic substances, e.g. oligoelements: oligoelements
A23K 10/30
Animal feeding-stuffs: from material of plant origin, e.g. roots, seeds or hay; from material of fungal origin, e.g. mushrooms
A23K 10/35
From material of plant origin, e.g. roots, seeds or hay; from material of fungal origin, e.g. mushrooms: from potatoes
A23K 20/105
Organic substances: aliphatic or alicyclic compounds

Food compositions and methods for preventing copper-associated hepatopathies

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Food compositions and methods for preventing copper-associated hepatopathies

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Abstract

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