Pet Food Compositions for Inducing a Satiety Response
AssigneeHill's Pet Nutrition, Inc.
InventorSamer Al-Murrani
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Abstract
The invention relates to pet food compositions designed to induce the animal to cease feeding upon consumption of the appropriate nutritional amount. The invention further provides methods of inducing satiety response in animals and methods of controlling the amount of food intake in animals.
Claims21
A pet food composition comprising a satiety inducing agent in an amount effective to induce a satiety response, wherein the satiety inducing agent is effective to modulate expression of one or more genes selected from NPY, NPY receptors, leptin and leptin receptors and wherein the satiety inducing agent is selected from beta-carotene, tomato powder and resveratrol.
The pet food composition of any preceding claim, wherein the resveratrol is in an amount of 3 mg to 450 mg.
The pet food composition of any preceding claim, wherein the animal is a cat.
The pet food composition of any preceding claim further comprising:
- 0-90% by weight carbohydrate;
- 5-70% by weight protein;
- 2-50% by weight fat;
- 0.1-20% by weight total dietary fiber;
- and
- 0-15% by weight vitamins and minerals.
Use of an agent selected from beta-carotene, tomato powder and resveratrol, and combinations thereof, to control the amount of food intake of an animal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.