JP2003088328A - Food for preventing or eliminating constipation or obesity - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide new food in view of the fact that although many people are suffering from obesity and constipation attributable to lifestyle habits and dietary life and the like, these illnesses have been given little attention compared to the other illnesses/diseases; as to obesity, guidances for life improvement and dietary therapies have been performed, while for constipation amelioration, relevant medicaments have been used in addition to life improvement; also, in recent years, various health foods and specific health supplements intended for obesity proofness and/or constipation proofness have been on the market; meanwhile, although it has been known that mulberry leaves extract suppresses disaccharide absorption and fig fruits are utilized for ameliorating constipation, food as a combination of fig fruits with mulberry leaves extract having antiobestic effect and/or anticonstipating effect and easy to eat has not been known yet. SOLUTION: This new food is obtained by impregnating or coating fig fruits with a mulberry leaves extract so as to make the hard-to-eat extract into an easy-to-eat food. This easy-to-eat new food thus obtained, which is conveniently usable daily, is effective for ameliorating constipation (Tables 1 and 2, see the specification), being an antiobestic/anticonstipating food.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a food which has an anti-obesity and anti-constipation effect by combining fig fruit and mulberry leaf extract, which are ordinary foods, and is easy to take.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Fig fruits are rich in dietary fiber and have a constipation-eliminating action. It is a known fact that it has an anti-constipation effect.

However, it is a completely new finding to impregnate fig fruits with mulberry leaf extract to make an easy-to-eat anti-obesity and anti-constipation food.

[0004]

Mulberry leaves contain deoxynojirimycin, which interferes with the action of disaccharide-degrading enzymes, and when taken with food, absorption of carbohydrates is inhibited, resulting in blood glucose levels. It can be expected to reduce constipation by increasing the dietary fiber due to descent, anti-obesity, and indigestion of sugars.

However, mulberry leaves are difficult to eat by themselves, and the extract has a strong hygroscopic property, is difficult to store and process, and cannot be eaten normally.

Therefore, the object of the present invention is "mulberry leaf extract".
In order to make it easy to eat, it is to look for a combination of ingredients that can be expected to have a synergistic effect and a food form.

[0007]

[Means for Solving the Problems] The inventors of the present invention have solved the problems as described above and have conducted earnest research to achieve the object of the present invention, and as a result, obtained by impregnating dried fig fruits with mulberry leaf extract. The present invention has been completed by the fact that many foods have supported such foods because they are easy to ingest as foods, and that the desired constipation-eliminating effect has been revealed.

[0008]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION The food form of the present invention is a form in which fig fruit is impregnated or coated with mulberry leaf extract.

The fig fruits of the present invention can be used as dried fruits or raw fruits. Mulberry leaf extract is a product of washed and dried mulberry leaves extracted with water or hydrous ethanol, or further purified by a cation exchange resin or a combination of a cation exchange resin and an anion exchange resin to obtain "deoxynojirimycin". A concentrated product can also be used. Also,
Water can also be used in the process of processing.

Next, the present invention will be specifically described by way of examples, but the examples do not limit the present invention in any way.

[0011]

[Example 1] 1 kg of dried mulberry leaves was mixed with 10 L of warm water for 3 times.
The extract obtained by extracting twice for 0 minutes was passed through 2 L of a cation exchange resin (IR-120H + manufactured by Organo), washed with 10 L of water, and then eluted with 4 L of 1% ammonia water, Concentrated to obtain a purified mulberry leaf extract having a solid content of 20 g. After dissolving 2 g of this in 10 mL of 50% ethanol and performing sterilization filtration, 1 dry fig (about 3
˜4 g) was injected at 1 mL / portion and further dried to obtain the intended food product.

The food of this example was applied to eight subjects,
I had them eat one or two each three times a day for two weeks. The subject was a chronic constipation recruited in-house,
Regarding the number of flights, before eating (1 week) and eating period (0-1)
Interviews were conducted during the first to second weeks of the feeding period, and the results are shown in Table 1.

Table 1

As is clear from Table 1, ingestion of the food of this example significantly increased the number of bowel movements. When 6 meals are eaten per day, it is considered that the effect of bowel movement can be expected more than when eating 3 meals per day.

[0015]

[Example 2] 1 kg of dried mulberry leaves was mixed with 10 L of warm water.
The extract obtained by extracting twice for 0 minutes was concentrated to obtain 200 g of a solid content. 50 g of this mulberry leaf extract, 5 g of the purified mulberry leaf extract prepared in Example 1 and 50 dried figs.
Put the pieces in a heat-resistant container, add 1000 mL of water, and weigh 3
Boil down to 50g. As a result, a jam-shaped target food was obtained. The food of this example was applied to 10 subjects, and 7 g including one fig fruit or 14 g including two fig fruits was eaten three times a day for each meal for 2 weeks. The subject was a chronic constipated person recruited in-house, and an interview survey was conducted before eating (2 weeks) and eating period (2 weeks) regarding the frequency of bowel movements, and the results are shown in Table 2.

Table 2

As is clear from Table 2, feeding of the food of this example increased the frequency of flight of the subject at a high rate of 60% for 3 figs per day and 80% for 4 figs per day. did. Therefore, it is considered that constipation can be improved and constipation can be prevented or prevented by using the food of this example in daily eating habits.

From the above examples, the food in which the mulberry leaf extract is combined with the fig fruit is easy to ingest and effective for improving constipation.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A food product comprising fig fruit containing mulberry leaf extract. 2. A food characterized in that fig fruit is impregnated with mulberry leaf extract and dried. 3. A food characterized in that fig fruit is impregnated with mulberry leaf extract and boiled down.