Taiyo Kagaku Co., Ltd.

Senji Sakanaka

Noriyuki Ishihara

Lekh Raj Juneja

Seiji Shu

Kouichi Kitahata

Kazuhiko Sugiura

Ken Tsuda

Izumi Ozeki

Noriko Tsuji

Shigemitsu Akachi

Takayuki Mitsuya

Souichi Mamiya

Shoichi Ishigaki

A powder composition, characterized in that the powder composition includes delipidated egg yolk particles and a functional food material, the functional food material being impregnated in pores of the delipidated egg yolk particles; a method for preparing a powder composition characterized by mixing a delipidated egg yolk with water, spray-drying the resulting mixture, to prepare porous, delipidated egg yolk particles having pores on surfaces thereof; and mixing the resulting delipidated egg yolk particles with a functional food material, and drying the resulting mixture under reduced pressure; and a food including the powder composition mentioned above. The powder composition of the present invention has excellent flowability and little stickiness, and the functional food material can be contained therein at a high concentration, so that the deterioration of the substances susceptible to undergo deterioration by light, heat, oxygen, or the like is prevented, whereby making the flavor of the substance having undesirable flavor better, and the properties of the functional food material are made stable for a long period of time.

Method of preparing a powder composition

A composition for suppressing behavior problems of pets, comprising theanine, and optionally one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of highly unsaturated fatty acids and cholines; and a method of suppressing behavior problems of pets, comprising administering the above composition to a pet having behavior problems. The composition can be effectively used for suppressing various behavior problems associated with the pet.

Composition and method for suppressing behavior problems of pets

The present invention relates to a feed additive for animals comprising tea extract, to a feed additive for animals of which active ingredient is tea leaf fiber, and to an animal feed comprising the feed additive for animals. The tea extract in the present invention exerts great effects in preventing and treating noninfectious and infectious diarrhea in domestic animals, poultry, and pet animals, improving milk quality of fresh milk, increasing milk yield, and improving reproductive efficiency. Also, the tea leaf fiber of the present invention improves intestinal function in domestic animals, decreases the occurrence of diarrhea, increases milk yield, improves feed efficiency and removes malodor of feces and urine.

Tea-derived feed additive and animal feed containing the same

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Yokkaichi, Japan

Senji Sakanaka