JP2005087189A - Reducing cow's milk and method for producing the same - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain reducing cow's milk economically producible with a small-sized production apparatus and having low oxidation-reduction potential and extremely strong reducibility. <P>SOLUTION: The reducing cow's milk is obtained by dissolving hydrogen gas at -180°C to 90°C in cow's milk at 0-100°C through applying pressure of 0.1-1,000 atm and returning the product to normal temperature and normal pressure. Since the reducing cow's milk has extremely low oxidation-reduction potential, the cow's milk causes no health problem and can be ordinarily used as reducing cow's milk. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The invention of this application relates to a novel reducing milk and a method for producing the same.

  Conventionally, milk is generally drunk in consideration of health promotion, but there is no way to verify the milk from the standpoint of redox. Various types of milk are usually incorporated in daily life, but the idea of giving milk a reducibility has not been incorporated so much, considering the redox potential of the milk it drinks as a problem.

  Therefore, the inventor conducted various experiments to obtain reducible milk, and as a result, dissolved hydrogen gas that had been cooled to room temperature or cooled under pressure until it reached equilibrium, and the pressurized pressure was removed in this state. When returning to room temperature and normal pressure, a part of the dissolved hydrogen gas is vaporized, but the hydrogen gas is several to several thousand times the normal solubility, and the dissolved hydrogen gas is almost vaporized. Therefore, the present invention has been found to have a very low oxidation-reduction potential and has been completed.

  That is, an object of the present invention is to provide milk having sufficient reducibility and a method for producing the same. This object of the present invention can be achieved by the following configurations.

  According to one embodiment of the present invention, milk having a redox potential of −10 mV or less under normal temperature and pressure is provided. Unlike the milk that has been used for drinking, this reducing milk has a sufficiently low redox potential of -10 mV or less, so that it does not cause any health problems and can be used as reducing milk. You will be able to drink normally.

  Moreover, according to another aspect of the present invention, hydrogen gas at −180 ° C. to 90 ° C. is pressurized to 0.1 atm to 1000 atm in milk at 0 ° C. to 100 ° C. and returned to normal temperature and pressure. The reducing milk obtained by 1 and the manufacturing method are provided.

  In the production of reducible milk in the present invention, the upper limit of the hydrogen gas temperature is set to 90 ° C. The reason why the hydrogen gas is usually supplied in a hydrogen gas cylinder, but the hydrogen gas cylinder that has been left outside the room is used. It is common for the temperature of water to reach 90 ° C due to sunlight, and even this level of hydrogen gas can be sufficiently dissolved in milk, but if the temperature is too high, it will lead to a significant rise in the temperature of milk. This is because the solubility decreases, which is not preferable. The reason why the lower limit of the temperature of the hydrogen gas is set to −180 ° C. is that hydrogen gas may be supplied in the form of liquid hydrogen cooled to −253 ° C. or lower, but this liquid hydrogen is vaporized and dissolved in milk. At this time, although it depends on the temperature of the original milk, the supply pressure and the flow rate of hydrogen gas, the temperature at which the milk can be dissolved experimentally is confirmed and limited. However, since the resulting reduced milk is finally returned to room temperature and normal pressure, from the viewpoint of economy and energy efficiency, the low temperature of liquid hydrogen can be used for other purposes and dissolved in milk. It is better that the hydrogen temperature during the heating is 0 ° C. or higher.

  In addition, the pressure at the time of dissolving hydrogen gas in milk shall be 0.1 atmosphere-1000 atmospheres (gauge pressure). The higher the pressure, the more hydrogen gas will dissolve in the milk, but the resulting reduced milk will eventually return to room temperature and normal pressure, so even if the pressure is too high, it will be returned to normal pressure. Since the amount of hydrogen that is vaporized at the time increases, it is wasted economically and in energy. Preferably 0.1 to 10 atmospheres, more preferably 1 to 8 atmospheres is used.

  At this time, the dissolution rate of hydrogen gas in milk varies depending on the temperature and pressure when the hydrogen gas is dissolved, but about 0.001 to 0.5 wt% is stable when the temperature is returned to normal temperature and pressure. Is dissolved. Since the solubility of hydrogen gas in milk at room temperature and normal pressure is about 2 ml / 100 ml (about 1.8 × 10 −4 wt%), the amount of hydrogen gas in the reduced milk obtained in the present invention is simply at room temperature and normal pressure. Compared with the case where hydrogen gas is dissolved, about 5 to 2500 times as much hydrogen gas is dissolved.

  The reason why such a large amount of hydrogen gas is stably dissolved in milk can be considered that a part of the hydrogen gas is dissolved in a supersaturated state, but by itself, the amount of dissolved hydrogen gas is large. I cannot explain because it is too much. Although it is necessary to wait for further research for the detailed reason, the present inventor presumed that the following phenomenon occurred.

  That is, even if hydrogen gas is dissolved in milk at room temperature and normal pressure, no reaction usually occurs. However, when hydrogen gas is dissolved in milk under pressure, oxygen atoms in the milk and hydrogen atoms in hydrogen gas approach each other, and hydrogen bonds are formed between them. Also dissolves in large quantities. This hydrogen bond once generated remains in a stable state even when it is returned to normal pressure, so hydrogen gas that is several to several thousand times more stable than the expected quantity is dissolved even under normal pressure. It is estimated to be.

  In producing the reducible milk in the present invention, a known gas-liquid contact device can be used, and it can be appropriately used regardless of whether it is a batch type or a continuous flow type. Naturally, the hydrogen gas vaporized when milk that has absorbed hydrogen gas at a high pressure is returned to normal temperature and pressure can be recovered and reused. Hereinafter, specific examples of the present invention will be described in detail.

  (Example)

  First, the pH and redox potential of milk before dissolving hydrogen gas were measured. The results are summarized in a table.

  As an example, normal temperature hydrogen gas is adjusted to milk at room temperature so that the inlet pressure is 6 atm and the outlet pressure is 0.2 atm, and a total of 1 liter is flown at a rate of 200 ml / min for 5 minutes using a gas-liquid contact device. did. Thereafter, the obtained reducing milk was kept under normal temperature and pressure, and the oxidation-reduction potential and pH were measured. The results are summarized in the table.

（酸化還元電位及びｐＨ測定については、共に東亜ＤＫＫ製ＯＲＰ計測器及びｐＨ計測器を用いた）
この表の結果から、本発明の還元性牛乳はｐＨがあまり変化しないにもかかわらず酸化還元電位が−５６８ｍｖと非常に低い還元性を示しているのがわかる。

(For redox potential and pH measurement, both ORP measuring instrument and pH measuring instrument made by Toa DKK were used)
From the results of this table, it can be seen that the reducing milk of the present invention has a very low reducing potential of -568 mV even though the pH does not change much.

この表２の結果によれば、本発明に従って得られた還元性牛乳を密閉容器内に保存すると徐々に酸化還元電位の値が低下して約２４時間〜４８時間後に極小値をとった後、徐々に上降する傾向がみられた。特にこのような電位変化が生じる理由については現在のところまだ解明されていないが、後半の酸化還元電位の上昇については容器内への周囲空気の進入の影響も考えられなくないので、別途、密閉容器を開放した場合の酸化還元電位の経時変化を確認することとした。

According to the results in Table 2, after the reducing milk obtained according to the present invention is stored in a sealed container, the value of the oxidation-reduction potential gradually decreases and takes a minimum value after about 24 to 48 hours. There was a tendency to descend gradually. In particular, the reason why such a potential change occurs has not yet been elucidated at present. However, the increase in the second half of the redox potential cannot be considered due to the ingress of ambient air into the container. It was decided to confirm the change with time of the oxidation-reduction potential when the container was opened.

  Reducing milk having a redox potential of -537 mV in Table 1 was allowed to stand at room temperature, and the relationship between elapsed time, redox potential, and pH was measured. The results are summarized in Table 3.

この表３の結果によれば、本発明に従って得られた還元性牛乳は開放容器にて保存するとｐＨにほとんど変化を及ぼさずに、酸化還元電位のみ上昇することがわかる。以上の表から推測すると牛乳中に溶解していた水素ガスが気化してしまうというよりも、空気中の酸素が溶け込むことにより酸化還元電位が上昇すると考えられる。

According to the results in Table 3, it can be seen that the reductive milk obtained according to the present invention increases only the oxidation-reduction potential with little change in pH when stored in an open container. As estimated from the above table, it is considered that the oxidation-reduction potential rises as oxygen in the air dissolves rather than the hydrogen gas dissolved in the milk evaporates.

The invention's effect

  As described above, according to the present invention, milk having a very low oxidation-reduction potential under normal temperature and normal pressure can be obtained, so that it can be used normally without causing any health problems.

Claims (5)

  Milk having a redox potential of -10 mv or less and -2000 mv or more under normal pressure.   Milk obtained by pressurizing and dissolving hydrogen gas at −180 ° C. to 90 ° C. to 0 ° C. to 100 ° C. to 0.1 atm to 1000 atm, and returning to normal temperature and pressure.   3. The milk according to claim 2, wherein the milk contains at least one selected from tap water, purified tap water, alkaline ionized water, mineral-containing water, side water, seawater desalted water, purified water, and pure water. Milk. A method for producing milk comprising the steps of (1) and (2) below.
(1) A process in which hydrogen gas at −180 ° C. to 90 ° C. is pressurized to 0.1 atm to 1000 atm in milk at 0 ° C. to 100 ° C.
(2) A process of returning the milk obtained in the process of (1) to normal pressure.   The method for producing milk according to claim 4, wherein the hydrogen gas is supplied batchwise or continuously.