Abstract: The present invention provides a pharmaceutical or food composition for animals, containing a first composition and a second composition in combination, wherein the first composition contains a fish meat or livestock meat component but does not contain cystine, the second composition contains cystine but does not contain reducing sugar or phosphorus, and the first composition and the second composition are filled in separate containers.

Abstract: A compound represented by the formula: [wherein ring A represents a homocycle optionally having substituents or a nitrogen-containing heterocycle optionally having substituents; D and E are O or S; one of R1 and R2 represents a group represented by the formula: (wherein Ar1 and Ar2 represent an aromatic group optionally having substituents; Ar1 and Ar2 may form a condensed cyclic group optionally having substituents together with an adjacent carbon atom; ring B represents a nitrogen-containing heterocycle optionally having substituents; X and Y are a bond, O, S(O)p (p is an integer of 0 to 2), NR4 (R4 is H or a lower alkyl group) or a bivalent straight-chained lower hydrocarbon group, which may contain 1 to 3 hetero atoms, optionally having substituents; and R3 represents H, a hydroxy group optionally having substituents or an optionally esterified carboxyl group); and the other is a hydrogen atom, a cyano group or a hydrocarbon group optionally having substituents&rsq