JP2003047438A - (health) food containing and formulated with morinda citrifolia l. and method for producing the same - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that many functionalities of Morinda citrifolia L. have been examined for the purpose of using them in a health food for health promotion and disease prevention, however, in order to mask a specific unpleasant odor, conventionally the juice of the fruit of Morinda citrifolia L. is formulated with another juice of a fruit having a strong smell such as mango, grape, blueberry, prune, or spice to produce a tonic or a health beverage. SOLUTION: The specific unpleasant odor is removed by drying sarcocarp or fruit juice of Morinda citrifolia L. as the result of various studies for formulating the fruit juice component of Morinda citrifolia L. into various foods as well as a beverage. As method for producing dried sarcocarp of Morinda citrifolia L. or dried fruit juice of Morinda citrifolia L. is provided. A method for producing a food or a health food formulated with dried sarcocarp of Morinda citrifolia L. or dried fruit juice of Morinda citrifolia L. is also provided.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a tropical plant, Morinda citrif.
olia L. ) Or Yaeyama Aoki (hereinafter abbreviated as None)), or a food in which a powder of the fruit or fruit juice is mixed and the production thereof.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In the past, in Hawaii and the Pacific islands, none, fruits, leaves, flowers or stems, and roots have been used as folklore medicinal plants. (Ani Hirazumi and H. Furusawa, Phytotherapy Research, 13
Volume, pp. 380-387 (1999), Anne. H
irazumi and Eichii Furusa
wa, Phytotherapy Research1
3,380-387 (1999))

This plant none is native to the Moroccan Islands and grows in tropical Asia, Australia and the Pacific Islands.
It belongs to the Rubiaceae family of the genus Morinda, has a young branch with four ridges and is an ellipse with a length of 15 to 25 cm, a shrub with broad oval leaves and a height of 1.5 to 3 m, and a small white flower. After that, add white-green fruits 5 to 8 cm in length. The surface of the fruit is uneven and has many round holes. When ripe, this fruit turns into a yellowish-green thin, transparent, fleshy aggregate kernel fruit. The fruit has many reddish brown seeds, which have air sacs. The pulp can be eaten, but it has a strong sourness and astringency, and ripe ones become semi-liquid with a very unpleasant odor over time.

Each part of this plant was generally used for the following diseases. That is, fever, stomach pain, ulcers, tonics, diarrhea, dysentery, swelling, cuts, arthritis, asthma, tuberculosis,
Hypertension, diabetes, malaria, liver disease, splenomegaly. At the time of famine, fruits were also used as food.

[0005]

Recently, it has been studied to utilize many of the functions of this plant in health foods for the purpose of promoting health or preventing diseases. In particular, fruit with various functions has been examined in various forms, but in order to mask the peculiar unpleasant odor, conventionally, the juice of this fruit has a scent of mango, grape, blueberry, prune, etc. Tonics and health drinks have been made by mixing strong other juices or adding flavors.

[0006]

Means for Solving the Problems As a result of various investigations by the present inventors for incorporating this fruit juice component into not only beverages but also various foods, as a result, drying the fruit juice of none has a peculiar unpleasant odor. Was found to be eliminated, and the present invention was completed.

The present invention, which meets this object, is a method for producing dried none pulp or dried none juice, and a method for producing a food or health food containing the same.

The dried none pulp is sliced to a thickness of about 10 mm with the skin of the none sliced and lined on a wire net or a well-ventilated cage and dried in the sun or 85
Dry using a warm air dryer at ~ 95 ° C. The obtained dried none pulp has almost no unpleasant odor, is a brown to brownish-colored hard thin piece, and can be easily made into a powder by an ordinary hammer mill type or blade mill type pulverizer.

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BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION In order to prepare dried none fruit juice, first, the none fruit is allowed to stand for 1 to 4 days under the sun with the skin left to ripen. Then, it is placed in a plastic container and left at room temperature for 5 to 10 days, and the fruit becomes soft and changes to a state in which fruit juice is easily obtained. The softened fruit is squeezed using a hydraulic press. At this time, in order to obtain fruit juice efficiently, it is necessary to put ripe seeds in a container of a squeezing machine and squeeze it slowly at low water pressure for a long time. The obtained fruit juice is a brown-brown liquid with a solid content concentration of 4 to 8%, which has a peculiar unpleasant odor and has sourness and astringency. In order to dry the fruit juice, usual drying aids such as dextrin (dextrose equivalent amount 2 to 25), lactose, maltose, gum arabic and the like are added. The addition amount depends on the solid content concentration of the fruit juice, but is usually about 5 to 200 parts per 100 parts of the fruit juice. The addition amount is selected according to the drying method. As a drying method, freeze-drying is preferable as a component, but the powder obtained by ordinary spray-drying is preferable because it hardly smells. In this way, the odor is improved by drying when decanoic acid, ethyl hexanoate, ethyl octanoate, hexanoic acid, octanoic acid, and other organic acids, which are volatile components of fruits, are removed and sonoesters are removed. it is conceivable that.

The dried none fruits and the none dried fruit juices thus obtained can be incorporated into most foods and health foods. However, dried none fruits cannot be used when transparency is required because they contain pulp (pulp) that is insoluble in water.

The forms of health foods include tablets, granules, powders, capsules and the like, but the dried none fruits and the dried none juice obtained according to the present invention are powders having an improved unpleasant odor. It can also be mixed in the form of. In addition, since the component of the present invention has an extremely low water content, it can be blended with any component such as any health food component, ganoderma lucidum, carrot, propolis, yeast, aloe, turmeric, agarix, pomegranate, glucosamine, and Ashwagandha. it can.

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EXAMPLES Next, the present invention will be described more specifically by showing examples.

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[Example 1] 50 kg of None seeds are washed with water, sliced to a thickness of about 10 mm with the skin on, and lined up on a 90 cm x 90 cm stainless steel drying rack so as not to overlap with each other.
Dry with hot air at 5 ° C. for 20 to 30 hours. 3 to 4 kg of brownish brown hard flakes were obtained. The flakes were pulverized with a pin mill type pulverizer (manufactured by Nara Machinery Co., Ltd.) having a 1 mm sieve to obtain 3 to 4 kg of powder. Water content of powder is 3-8
It has acidity and astringency in%. The powder thus obtained had a significantly weaker odor than fruit juice.

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[Example 2] 100 kg of the None fruit was washed with water and about 10
It was sliced to a thickness of mm and immediately frozen. It was stored at −18 ° C. for 2 months and then freeze-dried to obtain 6-8 kg of a brownish-dry product. The dried product was crushed in the same manner as in Example 1 to obtain powders 6 to 8 having a sourness and astringency with a water content of 3 to 8%.
I got kg. The powder thus obtained had a stronger odor than the powder of Example 1, but the odor was significantly weaker than that of fruit juice.

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[Example 3] 100 kg of none fruits are washed with water and left for 5 days to ripen in the sun. Put this in a plastic container with a lid and let it stand for another 5 days at room temperature, the fruits will soften. This is PRESQUE ISLE C
BLADDER WDBSK B.O. At 50, low water pressure slowly squeezes and juice 30-40k
get g. The juice is a brown, translucent liquid with a solid content of 4-8%. Dextrin (product name)
Pa index # 2 manufactured by Matsutani Chemical Co., Ltd. 16-5
Melt to 0%. Then spray dry this juice. The spray dryer is manufactured by Nilo Atomizer, and the fruit juice feed rate is 1 kg / hour and the hot air inlet temperature is 190.
Dry at ℃. 5 to 7 kg of light brown powder was obtained. The powder thus obtained had a significantly weaker odor than fruit juice.

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Example 4 None fruits were washed with water, sliced to a thickness of about 10 mm, and immediately frozen. After storing at −18 ° C. for 2 months, 5 kg of frozen fruit was thawed. 5 kg of water was added thereto, and the mixture was ground with a mixer and freeze-dried to obtain 0.3 to 0.4 kg of a brownish-dry product. The dried product had a sourness and astringency with a water content of 3 to 8%, but had a significantly weaker odor than fruit juice.

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[Example 5] 30 parts of none powder obtained in Example 1, 60 parts of lactose,
4 parts of sucrose fatty acid ester, 5 parts of microcrystalline cellulose and 1 part of citric acid are mixed and compressed into tablets according to a conventional method (diameter 8 m
m, height 5 mm R surface, weight 250 mg, compression pressure 2500
to obtain tablets. No none flavor was felt in the obtained tablets.

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Example 6 20 parts of none powder obtained in Example 2, 60 sucrose
Parts, 15 parts of vitamin C and 5 parts of microcrystalline cellulose were mixed, and then granules were produced by a wet method according to a conventional method. None of the obtained granules had a taste of none.

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EFFECTS OF THE INVENTION The none powder obtained according to the present invention has remarkably improved flavor, and has the effect of significantly improving the quality of none-containing (health) foods containing the same.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A none (Morinda citrifolia (Mor)
inda citrifolia L. ) Or Yaeyama Aoki), after removing the epidermis and seeds, the pulp is dried and then pulverized to obtain a (healthy) food, and a method for producing the same. 2. A (health) food obtained by squeezing fruit juice from the fruit of None, adding an auxiliary agent for powderization, and then blending the powder obtained by a method such as spray drying or freeze drying, and a method for producing the same. .