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

Abstract

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.

Inventors

• 👤 Minoru Nichimo Co. Ltd. TAKEBE

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