RENAL FUNCTION MAINTENANCE AGENT FOR DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FEED FOR MAINTAINING RENAL FUNCTION, AND METHOD FOR MAINTAINING RENAL FUNCTION IN DOMESTICATED ANIMALS

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a renal function maintenance agent for domestic animals, a feed for maintaining renal function, and a method for maintaining renal function in domesticated animals, which exert excellent renal function maintaining effect on domestic animals.SOLUTION: A renal function maintenance agent for domestic animals of the invention contains coffee beans, for examples, raw coffee beans, roasted coffee beans, coffee extracts, and residues after extraction of coffee beans. The renal function maintenance agent for domestic animals of the invention can suppress variations of creatinine or urea nitrogen levels in blood by being administered in the latter period of fattening, in for example livestock for meat. The feed for maintaining renal function of the invention contains the renal function maintenance agent for domestic animals. The renal function maintenance method of domestic animals of the invention comprises administering coffee beans to domestic animals.SELECTED DRAWING: None