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Substance containing health-promoting component and process for the production thereof

US6045819A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMar 27, 1998
Grant dateApr 4, 2000
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Expiry dateMar 27, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA23V2002/00
  • WIPO fieldPharmaceuticals
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

The process for preparing a product containing a healthful component according to the present invention is capable of providing a product containing a healthful component comprising at least one member of the group consisting of liver function improving constituents, cardiac function improving constituents, anti-inflammatory constituents antifat constituents, antioxidation constituents, and antimutagen constituents; and applied products containing the plain product as an ingredient, for example, foods which can be ingested in a large amount, livestock feeds and aquacultural feeds, cosmetics, diets of pets, and precursory products for pharmaceutical preparations. The process is capable of simply preparing the above-mentioned product in a large amount at a low cost. Heretofore, such products as the product of the present invention have not been provided at all. The present invention is characterized in that koji mold is inoculated on a pulse crop to effect koji preparation, and the resultant from the koji preparation is hydrolyzed to thereby obtain the product containing the healthful component having the above-mentioned excellent activities.

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