GB2349571A - Kombucha tea mushroom in controlled release of bioactive compounds - Google Patents

Kombucha tea mushroom in controlled release of bioactive compounds Download PDF

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GB2349571A
GB2349571A GB9910040A GB9910040A GB2349571A GB 2349571 A GB2349571 A GB 2349571A GB 9910040 A GB9910040 A GB 9910040A GB 9910040 A GB9910040 A GB 9910040A GB 2349571 A GB2349571 A GB 2349571A
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01N—PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTS THEREOF; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES OR AS HERBICIDES; PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS
    • A01N25/00—Biocides, pest repellants or attractants, or plant growth regulators, characterised by their forms, or by their non-active ingredients or by their methods of application, e.g. seed treatment or sequential application; Substances for reducing the noxious effect of the active ingredients to organisms other than pests
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    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01N—PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTS THEREOF; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES OR AS HERBICIDES; PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS
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Kombucha tea is a beverage long used in China and is attributed to have a number of features that promotes good health. It is produced by a group of microorganisms using tea and sugar. During fermentation a jellylike mushroom made up of cellulose is formed on the surface of the tea. Kombucha tea mushroom can also be produced by growing the microorganisms in waste water from vegetable, fruit or dairy industry. This mushroom is used as matrix to incorporate bioactive materials in controlled release of bioactive compounds. The Mushroom is oven dried and soaked in solutions of bioactive compounds or when fresh homogenised and mixed with active ingredients. This is then made into pellets or made into sheets and dried and used in pest control or delivery of medicine.

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KOMBUCHA TEA MUSHROOM IN CONTROLLED RELEASE OF BIO ACTIVE COMPOUNDS BACKGROUND Kombucha tea is a fermente tea. It originated in China during Tsin Dynasty (bic). This tea was first used for its healing properties in the Far East. During fermentation of kombucha tea, a soft pancake like structure appears on the surface of the tea. This is a polysccharide, (kombucha tea mushroom) consisting mainly of cellulose and acetan and is used in controlled release of bioactive compounds.
CONTROLLED RELEASE OF BIO ACTIVE COMPOUNDS Farmers today depend on agro chemicals to increase crop production. Over use of some of these chemicals have lead to increased resistance by some pest.
Thus the farmer has to use more chemicals to have the same desired effect.
This practice is wasteful and leads to an overload of chemicals in the environment with its the subsequent social and economic problems. One solution to this is to deliver the agro chemicals at the right dose at the right time. This is called controlled release. In controlled release bioactive compounds are embedded in a matrix and released from it at a predetermined dose and rate. For this purpose a number of different materials are been used. Some of the common ones are calcium carbonate, polyethylene, ethylene vinylacetate, natural rubber and kraft lignin. Of these, lignin is the preferred option. This is because it is a natural product. There are specific soil microbes that break down different types of organic matter. However eg. cellulolytic microbes can only break down cellulose and not lignin. Therefore a matrix that releases the bio active compound at the required dose and frequency and at the same time gets denatured by soil microbes will'be'of great advantage to both farmers and conservationists.
Kombucha tea mushroom is one such material that can be used in controlled release of bioactive compounds.
PRODUCTION OF KOMBUCHA TEA MUSHROOM Kombucha tea mushroom is a by product of fermentation of kombucha tea and sugar. To prepare kombucha tea, three pints of water is boiled in an enamel vessel and six tea bags and six ounces of sugar is left to simmer for about 10 minutes. The tea bags are removed and the tea left to cool to room temperature. When it has cooled, a piece of kombucha tea mushroom is put in to the tea as a starter. The vessel is covered with a cloth and left in a / cupboard undisturbed for a bout 10 days. During this time a soft pancake like mushroom develops on the surface of the tea. This matrix is used in controlled release formulations.
CONTROLLED RELEASE FORMULATION The method used for controlled release formulation is as follows: The kombucha tea mushroom is removed from the vessel and air dried. This is then cut into small pieces or used as sheet. A known water soluble pesticide is dissolve in water and these pieces of dry kombucha mushroom or sheet is piaced in it. The dry kombucha matrix absorbs the pesticide solution.
These pieces are dried in air and is used directly in crop protection.
Another method used was to grow the kombucha tea mushroom in a solution of pesticides, The mushroom incorporates the pesticide. This is then dried cut up into convenient size or used as a sheet in crop protection.

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  1. KOMBUCHHA TEA MUSHROOM IN CONTROLLED RELEASE OF BIOACTIVE COMPOUNDS CLAIMS 1. Kombucha tea mushroom is a jellylike structure consists of cellulose and some water with the microorganisms. This is a by product of fermentation of tea and sugar by a group of microorganisms and it floats on the surface of the tea. This cellulose is used as a matrix to incorporate bioactive compounds used in controlled release of bioactive materials in pest control and delivery of drugs.
  2. 2. Microorganisms will produce cellulose when grown in waste water from vegetable, fruit and dairy industry.
  3. 3. The microorganisms in kombucha tea mushroom (claim 1) will grow in tap water, rain water and stream water when provided with sucrose, glucose or fructose.
  4. 4. Kombucha tea mushroom (claim 1) can be dried in an oven and then soaked in solutions of bioactive compounds.
  5. 5. Fresh kombucha tea mushroom can be homogenised and bio active compounds mixed with it. After thoroughly mixing with the bioactive material it is pressed into sheets or as pellets and oven dried for use in controlled release in pest control or drug delivery.
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WO2004000422A1 (en) * 2002-06-25 2003-12-31 Blenheim Investments Limited Method of producing organic material and use of the same
DE102009031244A1 (en) * 2009-07-01 2011-01-13 Bruno Gruber Producing carrier substance, useful as packaging aids, comprises providing aqueous solution containing water kefir culture, separating wet water kefir grains, carrying out first drying process, and enriching dried water kefir grains
RU2500198C1 (en) * 2012-08-21 2013-12-10 Владимир Хачатурович Хачатрян Biologically active biomaterial production method and biomaterial produced by said method
RU2630457C1 (en) * 2016-07-12 2017-09-08 федеральное государственное автономное образовательное учреждение высшего образования "Северо-Кавказский федеральный университет" Method of obtaining biologically active substance with prebiotic effect based on medusomyces gysevii
US12098508B2 (en) 2017-10-13 2024-09-24 Shaun Moshasha Cellulosic fiber additive formed from Kombucha biofilms

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
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WO2004000422A1 (en) * 2002-06-25 2003-12-31 Blenheim Investments Limited Method of producing organic material and use of the same
DE102009031244A1 (en) * 2009-07-01 2011-01-13 Bruno Gruber Producing carrier substance, useful as packaging aids, comprises providing aqueous solution containing water kefir culture, separating wet water kefir grains, carrying out first drying process, and enriching dried water kefir grains
RU2500198C1 (en) * 2012-08-21 2013-12-10 Владимир Хачатурович Хачатрян Biologically active biomaterial production method and biomaterial produced by said method
RU2630457C1 (en) * 2016-07-12 2017-09-08 федеральное государственное автономное образовательное учреждение высшего образования "Северо-Кавказский федеральный университет" Method of obtaining biologically active substance with prebiotic effect based on medusomyces gysevii
US12098508B2 (en) 2017-10-13 2024-09-24 Shaun Moshasha Cellulosic fiber additive formed from Kombucha biofilms

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