Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Potable water or ice compositions or processes of preparing...
Patent
1997-06-10
1998-10-20
Yeung, George
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Potable water or ice compositions or processes of preparing...
426 74, 426590, A23L 200
Patent
active
058243534
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to small-cluster water whose cluster (water molecule groups or hydrates) is small on the average and is retained as it is stably for a very long period of time.
In particular, the present invention relates to an improvement of the prior invention made by the present inventors and disclosed in JP-A-6-126287.
BACKGROUND ART
Water usually forms clusters (groups of molecules) consisting of a large number of molecules by hydrogen bonds, and the clusters always vary in size, depending on various conditions of a place where the water is present.
Water whose cluster is small on the average is known to be very useful physiologically and medically as follows: it tastes good because it completely gets into the taste buds (taste cells) of tongue owing to vigorous molecular motion; it gets into cells easily to activate them; it accelerates the absorption of a drug or food and drink because of its rapid absorption through a digestive tract; and it has cancer-preventive effect because it reduces the production of mutagens from the contents of intestines by controlling or activating enteric microorganisms and digestive tract tissue cells.
Well-known means for producing such small-cluster water are as follows.
A first means comprises cutting away the hydrogen bonds by exposing water to a supersonic wave to vibrate the same. A second means comprises bringing a ceramic into contact with water to allow far infrared rays emitted by the ceramic to act on the water. A third means comprises applying an electric field or a magnetic field to water.
Small-cluster water produced by any of these well-known means, however, has been disadvantageous in that it is not stable because of weak mutual binding of water molecules forming small clusters, and is restored to the former large-cluster water in several hours to several days at ordinary temperature.
Accordingly, the present inventors noted that natural springwater containing various mineral components forms smaller clusters than does ordinary water, and the inventors have already proposed the invention disclosed in JP-A-6-126287.
The invention disclosed in this reference relates to water which contains a low concentration of at least one mineral component selected from the group consisting of potassium ions, magnesium ions and calcium ions and whose cluster is so small on the average that a band width of 70 Hz or less is obtained in .sup.17 O-NMR spectrum of the water.
The small-cluster water according to the invention disclosed in the above-mentioned reference has sufficiently small clusters and can exist stably for a relatively long period of time at ordinary temperature. But, a period for which the water can exist in small-cluster state at ordinary temperature is limited to 3 years.
An object of the present invention is to improve the invention disclosed in the above-mentioned reference and provide a small-cluster water which can exist stably for a longer period of time at ordinary temperature.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
The present inventors further investigated the above disclosed invention and consequently found that water containing three mineral components, namely, potassium ions, magnesium ions and calcium ions in a predetermined weight ratio and having a potassium ion concentration of 100 ppm or more has sufficiently smaller clusters than does ordinary water and can exist in small-cluster state stably for 3 or more years (i.e. substantially semipermanently) at ordinary temperature, whereby the present invention has been accomplished.
The small-cluster water according to the present invention is characterized by having a potassium ion concentration of 100 ppm or more and containing potassium ions, magnesium ions and calcium ions in a weight ratio of potassium ions:magnesium ions:calcium ions of 1:0.3-4.5:0.5-8.5.
The weight ratio of potassium ions, magnesium ions and calcium ions contained is preferably 1:1.8:2.9.
The small-cluster water of the present invention can easily be produced by mixing the above-mentioned metal io
REFERENCES:
patent: 5328702 (1994-07-01), Hatto et al.
Osada Kazumi
Tsunoda Kenji
Taisho Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.
Yeung George
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