Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Product with added vitamin or derivative thereof for... – Vitamin is a or d
Patent
1993-11-17
1995-08-01
Pratt, Helen
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Product with added vitamin or derivative thereof for...
Vitamin is a or d
426 72, 426573, 426590, 426599, A23L 1302, A23L 1308
Patent
active
054378800
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
INDUSTRIAL FIELD OF UTILIZATION
The present invention relates to a health drink composition.
PRIOR ART
The contemporary man who is frequently obliged to eat irregularly and constantly exposed to various stresses and risk factors of cancer and other diseases is getting more and more conscious of his own health and accordingly more meticulous about the choice of foods and beverages. Particularly, unmarried men and women, employees dispatched to distant working places apart from their families, office ladies, executives and spouses working in double harness tend to eat out often as they visit others or make trips to remote places, and tend to fall into ill health or various states of morbidity such as obesity and adult diseases due to nutritional imbalance or over-intakes of high-energy food. Moreover, persons who dislike vegetables and/or favor meat, children having too many likes and dislikes in food, and people who are largely dependent on delicatessen food and fast food are steadily increasing in number and these people are also having fewer opportunities to take vegetables. However, reportedly an inadequate intake of vegetables, particularly green- and yellow-colored vegetables, can be a risk factor of colorectal and pulmonary cancers and the development of foods and beverages making up for deficiencies in the intake of green and yellow vegetables has been awaited. Regarding colorectal cancer, a deficiency in the intake of dietary fiber contained in vegetables is reportedly associated with its onset. As to cancer of the lung, too, an insufficient intake of carotenes which occur abundantly in green and yellow vegetables has been suggested as an etiologic factor.
Meanwhile, it has been reported that .beta.-carotene, which is one of the so-called carotenoids, contributes to the prevention of the above-mentioned cancer and that while as inferable from its chemical structure, this carotenoid contains many conjugated double bonds, it binds the free radicals formed in the body to stabilize them and thereby interrupt radical chain reactions (radical scavenger activity) to prevent catabolism of the body-building proteins (antioxidant activity) and, hence, prevent carcinogenesis. It has also been reported that this carotenoid is a precursor of vitamin A and has provitamin A activity, preventive activity against UV-induced suntan and immunopotentiating activity. However, no report is available about any food or beverage positively supplemented with .beta.-carotene or about the manifestation of the above-mentioned activities after intake of such a food or beverage.
As the food or beverage for compensating for deficiencies in the dietary intake of green and yellow vegetables, beverages containing dietary fibers, particularly water-soluble polydextroses, have been explored and implemented and it is known that these beverages are effective in the relief of constipation. However, it is generally believed that dietary fibers in general decrease the shelf-life of compositions containing them and, at the same time, detract from the digestion and absorption of other concomitant ingredients. Therefore, a considerable amount of circumspection is needed in formulating a food or beverage containing a dietary fiber and, moreover, the use of a dietary fiber imposes a fairly rigorous limitation on the selection of concomitant ingredients. Particularly the use of this carotenoid in combination with an oil-soluble substance is considered difficult from the standpoint of the stability and absorption of the resultant composition. Thus, there has been no research done about foods and beverages containing a dietary fiber in combination with said carotenoid and, for that matter, no food or beverage has been developed as yet to meet the demand for the simultaneous supply of said two ingredients.
PROBLEMS THAT THE INVENTION IS TO SOLVE
The inventors of the present invention did much research for providing a carotenoid-dietary fiber combination system that would meet the above demand of the industry and found that a novel health drin
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Hatai Ryuichi
Okamoto Toshihiko
Otsuka Ichiro
Takaichi Akihisa
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.
Pratt Helen
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