US 11,717,007 B2
Cat food
Junya Sakoda, Itami (JP)
Assigned to Unicharm Corporation, Ehime (JP)
Filed by Unicharm Corporation, Ehime (JP)
Filed on May 27, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/884,493.
Application 16/884,493 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2018/017512, filed on May 2, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 2017-228804 (JP), filed on Nov. 29, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0288749 A1, Sep. 17, 2020
Int. Cl. A23K 10/30 (2016.01); A23K 40/25 (2016.01); A23K 50/42 (2016.01)
CPC A23K 10/30 (2016.05) [A23K 40/25 (2016.05); A23K 50/42 (2016.05)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Cat food comprising:
food granules comprising extruded puffed granules having a moisture content of 12% or less,
wherein
60% or more of the food granules have a hardness of 2.5 kgw or less 1 minute after being immersed in a dilute hydrochloric acid (pH of 2.5) at 25° C. for 10 minutes,
60% or more of the food granules have an arithmetic mean surface roughness Sa of 14 μm or more, as measured using an L filter of a nesting index 0.25 mm, and
a pepsin digestibility of the food granules, 1 minute after being immersed in a 500 U/mL pepsin hydrochloric acid solution at 38° C. for 4 hours, is 60% or more.