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Agent for stabilizing foodstuffs and cosmetic agents, and a method for the production thereof

US6569469B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Assignee

Universitaet Hannover · DE

Inventors

Yasser El Saharty · Cairo, EG
Ulrich Krings · Landesbergen, DE
Ralf Berger · Blankenloch, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 14, 2001
Grant date	May 27, 2003
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 14, 2021

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61K2800/522
WIPO fieldPharmaceuticals
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for producing an antioxidatively active extract which can be used in particular for stabilizing foodstuffs and cosmetic agents. According to the method, non-enzymatically browned grain germs, or a mixture containing non-enzymatically browned grain germs, is/are extracted using a solvent or solvent mixture (e.g. ethanol or an ethanolic mixture) having an ETN value ranging from 0.6 to 0.8, and the extracting agent is then optionally separated off. The invention also relates to a method for stabilizing unbrowned grain germs in which these unbrowned grain germs are mixed with non-enzymatically browned grain germs.

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