Process for making a canned meat with gravy pet food

US4791002A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• The Quaker Oats Company · US

Inventors

• Gerald J. Baker · Wauwatosa, US
• Arun K. Bansal · Barrington, US
• John L. Konieczka · Lake Barrington, US
• David A. Kuntz · Glen Ellyn, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 31, 1987
• Grant date: Dec 13, 1988
• Expiry date: Mar 31, 2007

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S426/805
• WIPO field: Food chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The invention relates to canned pet foods and to a process for preparing them. Meat and gravy pet foods are prepared which are highly palatable due to high meat and significant fat contents. The meaty pieces exhibit high integrity and the gravy component is flowable from the can and coats the meaty pieces to provide a high sheen with no significant visible fat in the gravy.