Animal crackers

The tracks of zippers for commercial sliced meat and animal cracker closures are made of this type of blend. 

Used in baked goods (breads, cakes and cake mixes, cookies, crackers, snacks), pasta products, dairy-type products (beverage powders, coffee whiteners, whipped toppings), infant formulas, milk replacers for young animals, emulsified and coarsely ground meat items, meat analogues, hams, poultry breasts, dietary food items, and soup mixes and gravies. 

Products and Uses In flea and tick collars, sprays, and roach and ant killers. An insecticide for animal feed, cereals, cookies (packaged), crackers (packaged), figs (dried), flour, pork, and sugar. Excellent for controlling spiders and flying insects. 

In the autumn of 1902 Cannon enlisted the help of Hilbert F. Day, a second-year medical student, to confirm his deductions about salivary digestion in the stomach. He and Day mixed 30 g of crackers known to be free of sugar with 100 ml of diluted, filtered saliva, and they found that in vitro at 38 C, 80% of the starch was turned to maltose in 7 minutes. They fed a thick mush of crackers mixed with distilled water to hungry cats, and at half-hour intervals they killed some of the animals, excised the stomachs, and separated the contents of the antrum from the contents of the body of the stomach. When they dried the contents and analyzed them for maltose, they found maltose in both samples, the ratio of antrum to body averaging 1 1.13 to 1 1.71. Cannon attributed the presence of sugar in the antrum to diffusion from the contents of the body. That seems unlikely. Cannon and Day did show that protein in the form of salmon mixed with crackers delayed acidification of gastric contents and increased starch hydrolysis. 

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