Abstract: Provided is a pet food which includes an unsaturated fatty acid-containing oil and fat and has high storage stability and palatability. The pet food includes the following components (A) to (D): (A) an oil and fat including, as a constituent fatty acid, an unsaturated fatty acid having two or more double bonds; (B) a mineral component selected from iron, an iron compound, copper, and a copper compound; (C) one kind or two or more kinds selected from citric acid and a salt thereof; and (D) one kind or two or more kinds selected from a lecithin and a rosemary extract, in which the total amount of the component (C) is 10 times or more the component (B) in terms of molar ratio.

Abstract: A pet body fat measuring tool and method for measuring pet body fat by measuring a bioelectrical impedance includes an electrode body including at least two current electrodes and at least two voltage electrodes. The electrode body is pressed to a part of a pet body. The tool also includes a control calculating unit having an impedance measuring circuit connected to the electrode body to control a current made to flow at a time of measurement. The control calculating unit includes, in advance of the measurement, a direct correlation between a body fat percentage of a pet body and the bioelectrical impedance of the pet body to calculate the body fat percentage based on only a bioelectrical impedance determined from measured voltages. A distance between each of the current electrodes and each of the voltage electrode is fixed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to pet foods containing carbohydrates that include high-amylose starch, and an animal or vegetable protein. They are excellent in benefits such as having an anti-obesity effect and do not impair the pet's appetite or food intake.

Abstract: A pet food containing (A) an oil or fat and (B) one or more carbohydrate sources selected from the group consisting of modified starch, barley, sorghum, corn and high-amylose starch, wherein a content of diacylglycerol in the whole oil or fat is 20 wt % or higher. The pet food according to the present invention is excellent in the preventing or controlling effect on obesity, is not reduced in ingestion capacity, and does not affect stool conditions.

Abstract: A pet body fat measuring tool 10 for measuring pet body fat by measuring bioelectrical impedance including an electrode body 11 having at least two voltage electrodes 13 and at least two current electrodes 14 and being used by being pressed to a part of a pet body and a control calculating unit having an impedance measuring circuit connected to the electrode body 11 to control the current made to flow at a time of measurement and to calculate body fat based on bioelectrical impedance determined from measured voltages, wherein a distance L1 between each of the voltage electrodes and each of the current electrodes 14 of the electrode body and a distance L2 between the voltage electrodes 13 of the electrode body 11 are fixed. An electrolysis solution or organic solvent is held and supported by body hairs existing between a surface of a pet body and a surface of each of the electrodes 13, 14.

Abstract: Provided is a pet food having a high unsaturated fatty acid content and good long-term storage stability. The pet food contains the following ingredients (A), (B) and (C): (A) from 5 to 50 wt % of an oil or fat, said oil or fat containing 5 wt % or more of diacylglycerol, wherein the content of unsaturated fatty acids each having two or more double bonds therein in the constituent fatty acids of said oil or fat being 20 wt % or higher; (B) from 0.001 to 1 wt % in total of copper, iron, manganese and cobalt as minerals; and (C) 0.1 wt % or more of a vitamin C derivative based on ingredient (A).

Abstract: A heat generating unit is incorporated in a mask in order to actively supply warm steam, and also drug vapor, to the nose and throat, and moisturize the upper respiratory tract. It is preferable that a metal powder, salt, and water be contained in the heat generating unit, and that an exothermic composition that releases steam in conjunction with the oxidation reaction of the metal powder be used therein. It is preferable that either an inhalation valve or exhalation valve be provided in the main mask body.

Abstract: The present invention relates to pet foods containing carbohydrates that include high-amylose starch, and an animal or vegetable protein. They are excellent in benefits such as having an anti-obesity effect and do not impair the pet's appetite or food intake.

Abstract: A steam-generating unit that is applied to the skin or the mucous membranes has a steam-generating part that employs chemical energy, and the surface applied to the skin or mucous membranes is made from a moisture-permeable sheet. The temperature of the steam generated by the steam-generating part and released from the surface of the steam-generating unit is kept to 50° C. or lower. Steam that is as safe as that from a steam towel can be easily and continuously supplied to the skin and mucous membranes by this steam-generating unit.

Abstract: A heat generating unit is incorporated in a mask in order to actively supply warm steam, and also drug vapor, to the nose and throat, and moisturize the upper respiratory tract. It is preferable that a metal powder, salt, and water be contained in the heat generating unit, and that an exothermic composition that releases steam in conjunction with the oxidation reaction of the metal powder be used therein. It is preferable that either an inhalation valve or exhalation valve be provided in the main mask body.

Abstract: A method of the concentration of acidic phospholipids is disclosed, which comprises a first step wherein lecithin originating in a plant is treated with a solvent containing from 85 to 100% by weight of a lower alcohol and then eliminating the solvent fraction containing said lower alcohol to thereby give a phospholipid mixture, and a second step wherein said phospholipid mixture is treated by using an aqueous solution containing 75% by weight or less of ethanol.In the method of the present invention, the water-soluble components contained in the phospholipid mixture obtained in the first step are efficiently removed in the second step. Thus a lipid mixture containing acidic phospholipids at a high concentration can be relatively easily obtained from the lecithin originating in a plant. This lipid mixture is useful as an emulsifier or a taste modifier.

Abstract: A method for suppressing a bitter taste of material to be placed in mouth or in contact with mouth, such as foods, drinks, pharmaceuticals, comprises adding an acidic phospholipid or an acidic lysophospholipid to the material.

Abstract: A phospholipid composition which satisfies the following requirements (i) and (ii):(i) a weight ratio of a nitrogen-containing phospholipid to the sum of a phospholipid, a glycolipid and a sterol derivative of less than 0.5; and(ii) a ratio of an area of a high-polar substance on a silica gel thin-layer chromatogram to the sum of areas of a phospholipid, a glycolipid and a sterol derivative on a silica gel thin-layer chromatogram of less than 500 area/.mu.g. A fat and oil composition containing from 0.001 to 30% by weight of the phospholipid composition is also disclosed. The present invention enables the blending of phospholipids with a frying oil, which has been considered difficult since it causes heat coloration. Thus a fat and oil composition, which is excellent in mold-release characteristics during cooking, has a good smell during heating, suffers from no coloration of oil after heating and shows a good flavor, can be obtained.

Abstract: A process for the prodution of phosphatiolic acid is carried out by treating phospholipids with an enzyme capable of hydrolyzing a phospholipid into phosphatidic acid and a nitrogen-containing base and another enzyme capable of hydrolyzing a phospholipid into a diglyceride and a phosphoryl base. Further, another process for the production of phosphatidic acid is carried out by treating phospholipids with a treatment product of an oilseed is disclosed.