Compositions and methods are disclosed for providing a pet food feeding system or packaged product containing multiple formulations meeting a number of parameters in order to offer diversified ingredients and varied flavors to a pet with minimized digestive stress due to dietary changes.

To provide a feed that does not pollute rearing water, improves the immunity activity of leptocephalus larvae, is capable of directly feeding eel leptocephalus, and is capable of effectively inducing the growth of said larvae into glass eels. This micro-encapsulated aquaculture feed includes: an oil phase 11 having an oil-soluble nutrient component; a water phase 13 which is present inside the oil phase 11, and which includes a water-soluble nutrient component; and a film 15 which includes the oil phase 11 and the water phase 13. The water-soluble nutrient component includes at least one hydrolysate from among hydrolysates of amino acids, oligopeptides, and proteins.

To provide a feed that does not pollute rearing water, improves the immunity activity of leptocephalus larvae, is capable of directly feeding eel leptocephalus, and is capable of effectively inducing the growth of said larvae into glass eels. This micro-encapsulated aquaculture feed includes: an oil phase 11 having an oil-soluble nutrient component; a water phase 13 which is present inside the oil phase 11, and which includes a water-soluble nutrient component; and a film 15 which includes the oil phase 11 and the water phase 13. The water-soluble nutrient component includes at least one hydrolysate from among hydrolysates of amino acids, oligopeptides, and proteins.

The present invention is directed to plants that display an improved oil quantity phenotype or an improved meal quality phenotype due to altered expression of an HIO nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with an improved oil quantity phenotype or improved meal quality phenotype.

The present invention relates to preventing and/or treating urologic diseases and symptoms in humans or domestic animals. The present invention relates also to preventing and/or treating pain in the pelvic area. The invention relates to use of a heteropolysaccharide composition isolated from ligneous plants and comprising hemicelluloses, mainly glucomannans, but also xylans and pectic polysaccharides, as well as fractions, subgroups or mixtures of these, as pharmaceutical preparations, food additives and food products.

The disclosure provides edible hydration pods (EHPs) for hydrating animals and a method of manufacturing EHPs. In one example, an EHP directed to dogs is disclosed that includes: (1) a casing and (2) a liquid that is within the casing, wherein the liquid is water and the casing is an edible and digestible casing that is flavored for dogs and has a thickness corresponding to a bite force of dogs.

The disclosure provides edible hydration pods (EHPs) for hydrating animals and a method of manufacturing EHPs. In one example, an EHP directed to dogs is disclosed that includes: (1) a casing and (2) a liquid that is within the casing, wherein the liquid is water and the casing is an edible and digestible casing that is flavored for dogs and has a thickness corresponding to a bite force of dogs.

Disclosed herein is a method for improving the health of animal or human microflora using aloe vera. A method of purifying decolorized dried aloe vera leaf juice is also disclosed. The method may include removing an aloe vera leaf from an aloe vera plant, washing and/or sanitizing the leaf, and grinding the leaf into a slurry and subsequently purifying with activated carbon. The method may remove pigmented substances including the undesirable phenolic compounds present in aloe vera latex, and in particular the anthrones aloin A and aloin B, aloesin (a chromone) and aloe-emodin (an anthraquinone). Following purification, the liquid juice may then be spray-dried to form a final dry juice powder.

The present disclosure relates to the field of insect rearing. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to an insect larvae rearing substrate prepared from solubles derived from plant processing methods, in particular for the production of starch, proteins, ethanol or palm oil, a preparation method therefor and a rearing method using such a substrate.

The present disclosure relates to the field of insect rearing. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to an insect larvae rearing substrate prepared from solubles derived from plant processing methods, in particular for the production of starch, proteins, ethanol or palm oil, a preparation method therefor and a rearing method using such a substrate.