Patent ID: 7318934

Claim:
A method of treating a mammal to promote wound healing in said mammal in need thereof, comprising orally administering to said mammal an effective amount of a concentrated protein composition comprising about 5 to about 75 parts by weight of enzymatically hydrolyzed gelatin, about 0.1 to about 2 parts by weight of a sweetener, and about 5 to about 100 parts by weight of an ingestible carrier, said composition comprising the following amino acids, in grams per hundred grams of protein, each numerical value preceded by the word about: Amino Acid g/100 g Protein L-Alanine 8.60 L-Arginine 7.90 L-Aspartic Acid 5.90 L-Cystine 0.07 L-Glutamic Acid 9.90 Glycine 23.10 L-Histidine 0.73 Hydroxylysine 1.00 L-Hydroxyproline 6.60 L-Isoleucine 1.30 L-Leucine 3.00 L-Lysine 4.30 L-Methionine 0.73 L-Phenylalanine 2.30 L-Proline 15.20 L-Serine 6.60 L-Threonine 2.00 L-Tryptophan 0.40 L-Tyrosine 0.70 L-Valine 2.40.