Process for preparing a product from a pulse crop as a starting material and a food containing the product prepared from a pulse crop as a starting material
US5885632A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 8, 1995 |
| Grant date | Mar 23, 1999 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 8, 2015 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA61K36/48
- WIPO fieldPharmaceuticals
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A process for preparing a product from a pulse crop as a starting material and a food containing the product prepared from a pulse crop as a starting material are disclosed according to the present invention, thereby enabling a food, a livestock feed, an aquacultural feed or the like to be efficiently prepared, which is made from a leguminous crop or a defatted product thereof or the like, which has excellent carcinopreventive and carcinostatic activities, osteoprosis therapeutic effect and immunosuppressive effect, and which can be ingested in a sufficient amount, and thereby enabling a wholesome food such as a biscuit having the above-mentioned excellent pharmacological activities. Any conventional product made from a pulse crop does not have such excellent pharmacological activities and a process for preparing the same is poor in efficiency. Significant characteristic feature of the present invention resides in that glycosidic saccharides are hydrolytically separated from isoflavone compounds contained in a pulse crop to form isoflavone compounds containing aglycones in a large amount and that phytic acid contained in a pulse crop is removed to obtain a product having excellent …
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