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US 2024/0397977 A1Published application
Pet food compositions
AssigneeHill's Pet Nutrition, Inc.
InventorsSusan WERNIMONT, Kathy Gross, Matthew Jackson, Andrew Stormer
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Abstract
Pet food compositions and methods for treating, inhibiting, reducing the severity of, or preventing diarrhea or constipation, improving stool characteristics, improving stooling behavior, and/or improving quality of life in a companion animal are disclosed. The pet food compositions may include psyllium or a derivative thereof, a polyphenol source, a high solubility fiber source, and a low solubility fiber source. The method may include administering an effective amount of the pet food composition to the companion animal in need thereof.
Claims20
A pet food composition comprising:
- ground pecan shells, flaxseed, citrus pulp, pressed cranberries, pumpkin, fructooligosaccharides, and psyllium seed husk;
- from 0.5 to 3.5 wt. % of soluble fiber;
- from 7 to 13 wt. % of insoluble fiber;
- from about 0.5 to about 1.5 wt. % of omega-3 fatty acid;
- and
- from about 1 to about 5 wt. % of omega-6 fatty acid present, wherein omega-6 fatty acid and the omega-3 fatty acid are present in a weight ratio of omega-6 fatty acid to the omega-3 fatty acid is about 10:1 to about 1:1,
- wherein all weight percentages are based on the total weight of the pet food composition.
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