Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc.

Colgate Palmolive Company

Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.

University of Florida Research Foundation Inc

United States of America, As Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture

Christina Khoo

Kathy L Gross

Luis Montelongo

Pavinee Chinachoti

William David Schoenherr

Nolan Zebulon Frantz

Wai Lun Cheuk

Inke Paetau-Robinson

Kathy Lynn Gross

William D Schoenherr

Dennis Edward Jewell

Steven Curtis Zicker

Dale S Scherl

Karen Joy Wedekind

Glenn R Gibson

Lawrence E Rose

Alberto Nunez

Martin Foster Berry

Stephen Joseph Nojeim

Arland T Hotchkiss

Susan S Percival

Gary D Strahan

Rodney Arthur Serres

Caroline Hennigar Vogel

Stanley Thompson Michalski

Geoffrey Woolford

DeAnn Liska

Glenn Gibson

Deann Liska

The present invention encompasses pet food compositions that include one or more probiotic microorganisms, which are useful to improve the health of companion animals. For example, the invention encompasses pet food compositions including a probiotic, for example,and(). The present invention also encompasses the preparation of pet food compositions including one or more probiotic microorganisms intended for methods of maintaining or improving pet health through feeding a pet a pet food composition including the probiotic microorganism.

Pet food compositions including probiotics and methods of manufacture and use thereof

A process for preparing a glutamine-supplemented food product by contacting water and a nutritive base that predominantly comprises meat and carbohydrate with a peptide source of glutamine to form a wet mixture and heating the wet mixture at a temperature of from about 50&#xb0; C. to about 105&#xb0; C. for a time sufficient to cook the nutritive base. The process forms a cooked food composition comprising from about 60% to about 85% by weight water. The product is useful for feeding to an animal to increase glutamine absorption or to strengthen immune function.

Composition and method for providing glutamine

The invention encompasses pet food compositions for a companion animal that include ginger and methods for enhancing the quality of life of an animal by administering such pet food compositions in the diet of the animal.

Compositions including ginger for the amelioration or prevention of inflammatory conditions

Therapeutic use of extracts containing proanthocyanidin including treating disorders, e.g., inflammatory disorders, e.g., inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, indeterminate colitis, microscopic colitis, collagenous colitis, and irritable bowel syndrome. Methods of increasing a subject's immunological resistance to an infection and/or treating the infection. The infection can be, e.g., a bacterial, viral, or fungal infection. The methods can include, e.g., selecting a subject that has, or is at risk of developing, an infection, e.g., a bacterial, viral, or fungal infection, or a combination thereof; providing a composition comprising at least about 10% proanthocyanidin by weight; and administering to the subject an amount of the composition to the subject, to thereby increase a subject's immunological resistance to an infection and/or to treat the infection.

Inflammation and immunity treatments

Compositions comprising docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and optionally one or more fatty acids selected from the group consisting of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), arachidonic acid (ARA), linoleic acid (LA), and &#x3b1;-linoleic acid (ALA) are administered to felines for preventing or treating feline inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

Methods for detecting inflammatory bowel disease in a feline

Provided are methods of producing proanthocyanidin (PAC)-containing solutions, powders, and beverages, as are PAC-containing solutions, powders, and beverages produced thereby and cranberry plant material products.

Process for extracting compound from cranberry leaves and related products

A composition prepared from a cranberry hull enzyme-treated composition which reduces or inhibits the adhesion of microorganisms to cells having &#x3b1;-Gal-(1-4)-Gal terminal oligosaccharide receptors for adhesion.

Cranberry xyloglucan oligosaccharide composition

Compositions (including pharmaceutical compositions, foods, supplements, toys and treats) comprising a microbial exopolysaccharide are provided as well as methods for preventing or reducing diarrhea in a mammal wherein the method comprises administering a therapeutically amount of a microbial exopolysaccharide to a mammal in need thereof.

Method and composition to reduce diarrhea in a companion animal

Exopolysaccharide containing food

A method for preparing compositions, comprising docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and optionally one or more fatty acids selected from the group consisting of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), arachidonic acid (ARA), linoleic acid (LA), and &#x3b1;-linoleic acid (ALA), that are administered to felines for treating feline inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

Method for preparing compositions for preventing or treating inflammatory bowel disease

Growing community of inventors

Lawrence, KS, United States of America

Christina Khoo