Ingestible Compositions Containing Criollo Avocado Component
AssigneeThe Iams Company
InventorsSusan Ruth Beyer, Robbert H. Ter Haar
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Abstract
The undomesticated, i.e., criollo-type of avocado found growing in the tropics, particularly in the Dominican Republic, is used to prepare nutritional compositions for oral ingestion by humans and lower animals, especially pets such as dogs and cats.
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A method for supplying a member selected from the group consisting of mannoheptulose, perseitol and mixtures thereof to an edible food composition component, said food composition component comprising a non-avocado derived member selected from the group consisting of protein, fat, carbohydrate and mixtures thereof, by combining a criollo avocado-derived component containing said mannoheptulose, perseitol or mixtures thereof with said food composition component.
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