Pet Food Having Improved Animal Preference

• US 20100303967A1
• Filed: 05/28/2009
• Published: 12/02/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mars Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Mars Incorporated
• Inventors: Sunvold, Gregory Dean, Corrigan, Patrick Joseph
• Application Number:
  US12/473,486
• Publication Number:
  US 20100303967A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 426/92
• CPC Class Codes: A23K 40/30 by encapsulating; by coating
• CPC Class Codes: A23K 50/42 Dry feed

Abstract

A pet food in the form of a coated kibble wherein the coated kibble has an improved animal preference. The coated kibble can be made of a core and a coating. The pet food can have an animal preference enhancing amount of the analytes 2-Piperidione, 2,3 pentanedione, 2-ethyl-3,5-dimethypyrazine, Furfural, Sulfurol, Indole, and mixtures and combinations of these.

Claims

1. A method of enhancing the animal preference of pet food comprising adding to a pet food animal preference enhancing amounts of the analytes 2-Piperidione, 2,3 pentanedione, 2-ethyl-3,5-dimethypyrazine, Furfural, Sulfurol, Indole, and mixtures and combinations of these.

2. The method of claim 1 and wherein the pet food comprises a kibble.

3. The method of claim 2 and wherein the kibble is nutritionally balanced.

4. The method of claim 3 and wherein the kibble has an extruded core having a water content less than 12%.

5. The method of claim 4 and wherein the kibble has a coating.

6. The method of claim 1 and wherein the SPME analysis numbers of the analytes are selected from the group consisting of between 1,500,000 and 10,000,000 for 2-Piperidione, between 65,000 and 500,000 for 2,3 pentanedione, between 310,000 and 1,000,000 for 2-ethyl-3,5-dimethypyrazine, between 2,300,000 and 7,000,000 for Furfural, between 150,000 and 1,000,000 for Sulfurol, between 176,000 and 2,000,000 for Indole, and mixtures and combinations of these.

7. The method of claim 6 and wherein no dirty sock aroma is present.

8. A pet food comprising an animal preference enhancing amount of the analytes 2-Piperidione, 2,3 pentanedione, 2-ethyl-3,5-dimethypyrazine, Furfural, Sulfurol, Indole, and mixtures and combinations of these.

9. The pet food of claim 8 and wherein the pet food comprises a kibble.

10. The pet food of claim 9 and wherein the kibble is nutritionally balanced.

11. The pet food of claim 10 and wherein the kibble comprises an extruded core having a water content less than 12%.

12. The pet food of claim 11, and wherein the kibble comprises a coating.

13. The pet food of claim 10 and wherein the SPME analysis numbers of the analytes are selected from the group consisting of between 1,500,000 and 10,000,000 for 2-Piperidione, between 65,000 and 500,000 for 2,3 pentanedione, between 310,000 and 1,000,000 for 2-ethyl-3,5-dimethypyrazine, between 2,300,000 and 7,000,000 for Furfural, between 150,000 and 1,000,000 for Sulfurol, between 176,000 and 2,000,000 for Indole, and mixtures and combinations of these.

14. The pet food of claim 13 and wherein no dirty sock aroma is present.

15. A pet food in the form of a coated kibble, comprising:

an extruded core having a water content less than 12%;

from 0.1% to 75% coating, the coating coated on the extruded core to form a coated kibble;

wherein the coating comprises a protein component at from 50% to 99% of the coating and a binder component at from 1% to 50% of the coating;

wherein the coated kibble comprises less than 12% water content; and

wherein the coated kibble has animal preference enhancing amounts of the analytes 2-Piperidione, 2,3 pentanedione, 2-ethyl-3,5-dimethypyrazine, Furfural, Sulfurol, Indole, and mixtures and combinations of these.

16. The pet food of claim 15 and wherein the SPME analysis numbers of the analytes are selected from the group consisting of between 1,500,000 and 10,000,000 for 2-Piperidione, between 65,000 and 500,000 for 2,3 pentanedione, between 310,000 and 1,000,000 for 2-ethyl-3,5-dimethypyrazine, between 2,300,000 and 7,000,000 for Furfural, between 150,000 and 1,000,000 for Sulfurol, between 176,000 and 2,000,000 for Indole, and mixtures and combinations of these.

17. The pet food of claim 15 and wherein the coated kibble is nutritionally balanced.

18. The pet food of claim 15 and wherein the coating comprises the protein component at less than 12% moisture content.

19. The pet food of claim 15 and wherein the coating comprises:

a meal selected from the group consisting of chicken meal, chicken by-product meal, lamb meal, turkey meal, fish meal, soybean meal, corn gluten meal, and combinations and mixtures thereof;

high lactose whey by-product or egg white; and

chicken fat.

20. The pet food of claim 15 and wherein:

the core comprises a carbohydrate source, a protein source, a fat source, and other ingredients;

the coating further comprises a fat component.