Pet foods with water-soluble zinc compound coating for controlling malodorous breath

US5405836A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Nabisco, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Thomas M. Richar · Long Valley, US
• James B. Taylor · Woodinville, US
• Jan Karwowski · Franklin Lakes, US
• Felice Scaglione · Hasbrouck Heights, US
• James Roe · Wayne, US
• Michael S. Otterburn · Dover, US
• Wayne L. Steensen · Newark, US
• Henry C. Spanier · West Milford, US
• Richard L. Antrim · Solon, US
• Leif Solheim · De Witt, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 2, 1993
• Grant date: Apr 11, 1995
• Expiry date: Mar 2, 2013

Classification

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

Abstract

Breath freshening, dry pet foods, e.g., pet biscuits are prepared by topically applying a breath freshening amount of a water-soluble zinc salt to a farinaceous-based baked or cooked pet food. The amount of the water-soluble zinc salt is sufficient so that said topically-applied water-soluble zinc salt contains from about 2 mg to about 6 mg of zinc ion per 10 gm of the breath freshening pet food. Consumption of the dry pet food controls the malodorous breath of the animal. Rawhide chew coated in the same manner also provides breath freshening when chewed.