Patent ID: 7883730

Claim:
The method of providing rumen protected lysine for dietary supplementation of ruminants, said method comprising: selecting at least one lysine imine to be used as a source of rumen protected lysine of the formula: wherein R 1 and R 2 can be the same or different and are selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, aliphatic, aromatics, and cyclic moieties; R 2 is formed from use as a reactant Benzaldehyde, Salicylaldehyde, Cinnamaldehyde or Vanillin; R 3 and R 4 can be the same or different and are selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, aliphatic, aromatic and carbonyl moieties, and where R 3 is carbonyl, R 4 is not present and R 5 is selected from the group consisting of —OH, an ester producing moiety, an inorganic salt moiety and an amide producing moiety; and feeding the rumen protected lysine to a ruminant animal.