JP2007029043A - Method for processing chlorella powder - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for processing chlorella powder by which a commercially available chlorella powder having cell wall not crushed is made into superfine particle so as to crush the cell wall. <P>SOLUTION: This method for processing the chlorella powder comprises pulverizing commercially available chlorella powder whose cell wall is not crushed to be brought into particulate powder chlorella particles, admixing the powder chlorella particles with electrolyzed reduced water which has characteristics of containing no chlorine, having an oxidation-reduction potential of ≤200 mV and containing active hydrogen, and stirring and mixing the mixed liquid and bring the controlled liquid into a fluid product. Furthermore, the method comprises pumping the fluid product to a superfine particle-forming apparatus, eliminating active oxygen which is generated with active hydrogen in the electrolyzed reduced water during a superfine particle forming process, forming the whole powder chlorella particles into superfine particles without deteriorating active components to crush the cell wall and extract the active components in the cell wall into the fluid product, and drying the fluid product by a drying machine to take it out as the dry chlorella powder. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

In the present invention, a commercially available chlorella powder in a state in which the cell wall is not crushed is made into ultrafine particles, for example, to a nanometer size, so that the cell wall is crushed and chlorophyll, amino acid, vitamin in the cell wall is crushed. The present invention relates to a method for processing chlorella powder, which can extract active ingredients such as minerals and can further improve absorbability to the human body when the ultrafine powdered chlorella is eaten as a food. .

Conventionally, chlorella powder in a state in which the cell wall is not crushed is commercially available, but even if it is eaten, the cell wall is not crushed, so active ingredients such as chlorophyll, amino acids, vitamins, minerals are absorbed by the human body There is nothing. And many methods are conventionally employ | adopted as a method of crushing the cell wall of a chlorella. When the past patent documents are searched retrospectively, for example, the following patent documents are known.

JP-A-11-42440

Conventionally, chlorella powder that is commercially available in a state in which the cell wall is not crushed, active ingredients such as chlorophyll, amino acids, vitamins, minerals remain in the cell wall, so even if you eat chlorella powder, There existed a subject that the said active ingredient was not absorbed by the human body.

Further, in the above-mentioned Patent Document 1, a turbid liquid in which pure water is mixed with chlorella powder is treated with a wet jetle. During the treatment, active oxygen is generated, and the active ingredient of chlorella is There was a problem of deterioration.

The present invention was made to solve the above-mentioned problem, chlorella powder commercially available in a state in which the cell wall is not crushed, by crushing the cell wall by ultra-fine particles with an ultra-fine particle device, The active ingredients such as chlorophyll, amino acids, vitamins and minerals in the cell wall are extracted, and when they are eaten as food, they are made into ultrafine particles so that the absorption of chlorella powder that can be absorbed into the human body It is intended to provide a processing method.

The present invention is to pulverize a commercially available chlorella powder in a state where the cell wall is not crushed into fine powder chlorella particles, and to electrolyze the powder chlorella particles and tap water or natural water. The obtained powder is mixed with electroreduction water having a characteristic of containing no active chlorine and having an oxidation-reduction potential of 200 mV or less, and is pumped to the ultrafine atomizer at a high pressure. By colliding a fluid containing chlorella particles under high pressure and making the whole powder chlorella particles ultrafine, the cell wall is crushed and chlorophyll, amino acids, vitamins, minerals, etc. in the cell wall are effective. Ingredients are extracted into a fluid, and the fluid is dried by a dryer to evaporate and remove the water in the fluid, thereby degrading active ingredients such as chlorophyll, amino acids, vitamins, and minerals. Prevention In, by adopting a method of retrieving a finely divided dry powder chlorella, the above-mentioned problems are eliminated.

According to the chlorella powder processing method of the present invention, a commercially available chlorella powder in a state in which the cell wall is not crushed is finely pulverized into fine powder chlorella particles, and the powder chlorella particles and tap water An apparatus for making ultrafine particles of a fluid obtained by mixing water or electrolyzed water obtained by electrolyzing natural water with an electroreductive water that does not contain chlorine, has an oxidation-reduction potential of 200 mV or less, and contains active hydrogen The chlorophyll in the cell wall is crushed by pulverizing the cell wall by making the powder chlorella particles collide under high pressure and making the powder chlorella particles into ultrafine particles. Extract the active ingredients such as amino acids, vitamins, minerals, etc. into the fluid, and then dry the fluid with a dryer to evaporate and remove the water in the fluid, chlorophyll, amino acids, vitamin, To prevent degradation of the active ingredient, such as Neraru may be a finely divided dry powder chlorella.

And, when the dried powder chlorella processed into the ultrafine particles is made into a tablet or granule, it is collected as a health food, so it is made ultrafine compared to the commercially available chlorella powder. It is highly absorbable to the human body and can effectively absorb active ingredients such as chlorophyll, amino acids, vitamins and minerals.

The best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described in detail. In the present invention, a commercially available chlorella powder in a state in which the cell wall is not crushed is made into fine powder chlorella particles, and the powder chlorella particles do not contain chlorine and have an oxidation-reduction potential of 200 mV or less. In addition, a predetermined amount is added to and mixed with electrolytically reduced water having characteristics including active hydrogen to form a liquid material containing powdered chlorella particles, and this is pumped to an ultrafine atomizer at high pressure to contain the powdered chlorella particles. By colliding the flow under high pressure, the entire powder chlorella particles are made into ultrafine particles, for example, to a nanometer size, thereby crushing the cell wall, chlorophyll, amino acids, vitamins in the cell wall, An active ingredient such as mineral is extracted into the fluid, and then the fluid including the ultrafine powdered chlorella particles is dried by a dryer to evaporate the water in the fluid. It was removed, and finely divided dry powder chlorella.

The processing method for chlorella powder of the present invention is a processing method for chlorella powder that uses electrolytic reduced water that does not contain chlorine, has an oxidation-reduction potential of 200 mV or less, and has active hydrogen. And the 1st process of the processing method of the chlorella powder of this invention is a fluidization process of making the chlorella powder marketed in the state which has not crushed the cell wall into a fluid form.

That is, the first step is not particularly limited by pulverizing commercially available chlorella powder in a state where the cell wall is not crushed with a pulverizer or the like, but preferably in the form of fine particles having a particle size of 50 μm or less. After that, the powdered chlorella particles are obtained by electrolyzing 15 to 25% by weight, preferably 20% by weight, of tap water or natural water, and do not contain chlorine and have a redox potential. The powdered chlorella particles are mixed and stirred by adding and mixing in 75 to 85% by weight, preferably 80% by weight, of electroreduction water having a characteristic of containing 200% or less of active hydrogen and mixing and stirring. However, it is a process which adjusts so that it may disperse | distribute uniformly in the said electrolytic reduction water, and it is set as the fluid of a powder chlorella particle and the said electrolytic reduction water.

In the present invention, the electrolytically reduced water is used, particularly in the case of tap water, because it is oxidized by chlorine contained in tap water, and active ingredients such as chlorophyll, amino acids, vitamins and minerals deteriorate. This is to prevent the contamination of impurities, and further to use the above-mentioned properties possessed by electrolytic reduced water in the processing step of the present invention to obtain a high-quality chlorella powder obtained by crushing cell walls.

The electrolytic reduced water used in the present invention is not particularly limited, but preferably, tap water using, for example, “Trim Ion TI-8000”, which is an electrolytic reduced water adjuster manufactured by Japan Trim Co., Ltd. Electrolytically reduced water is used among electrolytic acid water and electrolytically reduced water produced by electrolyzing. It is known that the electrolytically reduced water produced by the “trim ion TI-8000” has an alkaline pH of about 9.6, an oxidation-reduction potential of about −274 mV, and contains active hydrogen.

The “electrolytically reduced water” is water obtained by electrolyzing tap water using an electrode plate obtained by calcining platinum on titanium, and is a water rich in active hydrogen having a reducing power. Water with the ability to erase active oxygen.

Usually, two hydrogen atoms (H) are bonded together and exist as hydrogen molecules (H ₂ ), but hydrogen does not exist as molecules, and atoms are present as active hydrogens. is there.

On the other hand, active oxygen is thought to cause various diseases, destroys clean cells from its strong oxidizing power, and causes illness and aging. Active oxygen is in an electrically unstable state with one electron less than normal oxygen, and tries to take electrons from normal cells (oxidation). In this way, the cells that have been deprived of electrons are oxidized and killed.

As described above, active hydrogen is electrically unstable due to the atomic state of hydrogen, but the active hydrogen is associated with electrically unstable active oxygen that causes various diseases. , Harmless (H + O = H ₂ O) and discharged outside the body. That is, active hydrogen has the ability to erase active oxygen.

The second step of the processing method of the present invention is a step in which powder chlorella particles are made into ultrafine particles, the cell wall is crushed, and the active ingredient in the cell wall is extracted into the fluid. That is, in the second step, the powder chlorella particles obtained in the step and the electrolytically reduced water are circulated by using a conventionally known ultrafine particle pulverizer to pulverize the entire powder chlorella particles. This is a step of crushing the cell wall to ultrafine particles down to nanometer size and extracting active ingredients such as chlorophyll, amino acids, vitamins, minerals, etc. in the cell wall into the fluid.

A conventionally known apparatus can be used as the ultrafine particle forming apparatus. In the present invention, there is no particular limitation, but preferably, an “emulsifying device” conventionally known as, for example, Japanese Patent No. 2788010 shown in FIGS. 1 to 8 is used as an ultrafine particle forming device of the processing method of the present invention. It is recommended to do.

That is, as shown in FIG. 1, the ultrafine particle device M is configured to supply the fluid supply tank 11, the high-pressure pump 12 that pressurizes the fluid, and the fluid that is pumped from the high-pressure pump 12. For example, an ultrafine particle member 13 that makes the powder chlorella particles ultrafine to nanometer size by colliding under high pressure, and an ultrafine powder chlorella discharged from the ultrafine particle member 13. It is comprised by the storage tank 14 which stores the fluid containing a component.

The ultrafine particle member 13 is housed in a casing 15 in which a first disk 16 and a second disk 17 are closely fixed, and these disks 16 and 17 have the above-mentioned flow shape on the plate surface. Through-holes 16a, 16b and 17a, 17b having widths through which objects can pass, and slit-shaped guide grooves 16c, 17c connecting the through-holes 16a, 16b, 17a, 17b are formed, respectively. 18, a guide path 19, a mixing chamber 20, and an outflow path 21 are formed.

The first and second disks 16 and 17 will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 to 6. The disks 16 and 17 have the same diameter by a wear-resistant material such as a sintered diamond or a single crystal diamond. Is formed.

As shown in FIGS. 2, 3 and 6, the first disc 16 has inflow through holes 16 a and 16 b having the same diameter in a vertically symmetrical position with respect to the center of the plate surface. A first guide groove 16c that communicates the end portions of the through holes 16a and 16b facing each other is formed in the contact surface with the two-disc 17.

As shown in FIGS. 3 to 7, the second disc 17 has a second surface so as to be orthogonal to the first guide groove 16 c of the first disc 16 on the close contact surface with the first disc 16. A guide groove 17c is formed, and outflow through holes 17a and 17b having the same diameter are formed at both ends of the second guide groove 17c.

The first and second discs 16 and 17 having the above-described configuration are closely overlapped so that the first guide groove 16c and the second guide groove 17c are orthogonal to each other in a cross shape, and the first cylindrical body 22 and the second disc The cylindrical body 23 is housed and fixed in a casing 15 formed by integrally connecting the cylindrical body 23 with bolts 24, whereby the ultrafine particle member 13 is formed. An opening 22 a on one side of the first cylindrical body 22 constituting the casing 15 is connected to the high-pressure pump 12, and an opening 23 a on the other side of the second cylindrical body 23 is connected to the storage tank 14. Has been.

In the casing 15, the first guide groove 16 c and the second guide groove 17 c of the first disc 16 and the second disc 17 which are closely superposed and fixed are orthogonal to each other in a cross shape, and the first and second circles are formed. A mixing chamber 20 is formed at the center of the plates 16 and 17. The inflow through holes 16a and 16b pass through the inflow path 18, the first guide groove 16c through the guide path 19 toward the center, and the second guide groove 17c and the outflow through holes 17a and 17b through the outflow path 21. Respectively. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 8, a liquid passage through which the fluid flows is formed in the order of the inflow path 18, the guide path 19, the mixing chamber 20, and the outflow path 21.

In the figure, 16d and 17d are positioning through holes provided in the first and second discs 16 and 17, respectively, and the first and second discs 16 and 17 are closely polymerized and fixed. When the first through second positioning holes 16d and 17d are polymerized so as to be able to pass through, and pins or the like (not shown) are fixed to the respective positioning through holes 16d and 17d. The two guide grooves 16c and 17c can accurately fix the first and second disks 16 and 17 orthogonally in a cross shape.

The operation of the ultrafine particle device M having the above-described configuration will be described. The flow material containing the powdered chlorella particles charged into the supply tank 11 is subjected to the ultrafine particle member 13 by the high-pressure pump 12 at a pressure of about 130 Mpa. It pumps to the opening part 22a of the one side of the casing 15 to comprise. The flow material fed to the opening 22a on the one side flows at a higher speed than the two inflow through holes 16a and 16b of the first disc 16, and further flows into the inflow through hole 16a. A high-speed flow flows in the inflow path 18 formed by 16b and both ends of the first guide groove 16c, and then formed by the plate surface of the second disc 17 and the first guide groove 16c. The flow direction is changed to the guide paths 19 and 19 with opposite pumping directions.

The flow material in which the flow direction is changed is two flows of the flow material whose pumping directions are opposite to each other in the mixing chamber 20 formed in the center portion where the first guide groove 16c and the second guide groove 17c are orthogonal to each other. Violently collides and changes the direction of the second guide groove 17c perpendicular to the cross shape by 90 degrees, the flow material collides and turbulence, and further collides with the wall surface of the second guide groove 17c to cause cavitation (cavity). Phenomenon).

And while the cavity part of this cavitation collapses, a very high pressure difference is caused locally, and the solid particle (powder chlorella particle) in the said fluid is crushed. This solid particle crushing phenomenon occurs within a very short time of several microseconds, and a powerful energy is instantaneously added to the flow material, and this energy makes the entire powder chlorella particles into ultrafine particles, for example, nanometer size. Thus, the cell wall is crushed, and active ingredients such as chlorophyll, amino acids, vitamins and minerals in the cell wall are extracted into the fluid.

When the fluid containing the powdered chlorella particles collides at a high pressure and momentary energy is applied to the fluid, water molecules are decomposed to generate strong active oxygen such as OH radicals. Oxygen reacts with active ingredients such as chlorophyll, amino acids, vitamins and minerals in the powdered chlorella particles, and these active ingredients deteriorate. Therefore, in the present invention, since electroreduction water containing active hydrogen is used, effective oxygen such as chlorophyll, amino acids, vitamins, and minerals can be obtained by erasing the active oxygen generated in the ultrafine particle work with active hydrogen. It is possible to obtain a chlorella powder obtained by crushing high-quality cell walls while preventing deterioration of components.

As described above, the flow material from which the active ingredients such as chlorophyll, amino acids, vitamins, and minerals in the cell wall are extracted by crushing the cell wall by making the whole powder chlorella particles into ultrafine particles is the second guide groove 17c. And the first circular plate 16 and the outflow passage 21 formed by the outflow through holes 17a and 17b through the opening 23a on the other side of the casing 15 and discharged to the storage tank 14 without difficulty. Is done. Even while passing through the outflow path 21, the flow material collides with the wall surface of the second guide groove 17c, that is, the wall surface of the portion facing the mixing chamber 20 and the end wall surface communicating with the outflow through holes 17a and 17b. Then, the ultrafine particles progress and the cell wall is further crushed.

In the ultrafine particle device M, two discs 16 and 17 are densely superposed and arranged in a flow path of a fluid, and slit-shaped guides formed on the superposition surfaces of the discs 16 and 17 are arranged. By passing the flow material through the grooves 16c and 17c and changing the flow direction, colliding with the wall surface and colliding with the flow material, the powder chlorella is made into ultrafine particles and the cell wall is crushed. It is formed so as to be discharged out of the casing 15 and stored in the storage tank 14.

When the ultrafine particleization of the powdered chlorella particles charged into the ultrafine particleizer M does not reach a predetermined particle size, for example, a nanometer size, the fluid once stored in the storage tank 14 is used as the high pressure pump. The chlorella powder that has been microparticulated to a predetermined particle size and crushed the cell wall by being repeatedly pumped to the opening 12a by 12 and introduced into the microparticulate device M a plurality of times and repeating the microparticulation process. Obtainable.

In addition, when the ultrafine particle formation process is repeated a plurality of times, the surface area of the entire powder chlorella particles increases as the particles become ultrafine particles, so that the moisture ratio decreases, so that it can be smoothly pumped to the opening 12a. Further, the active hydrogen disappears in a short time, and if necessary, a small amount of the electrolytic reduced water is newly added, for example, 2 to 10% by weight, preferably 5%. % Is added to the flow material to increase the water ratio to achieve smooth pumping to the opening 12a, and newly added ultra-fine particles of electroreduction water that has been added and mixed with new ultrafine particles. The active oxygen generated again by the forming step may be erased to form ultrafine particles.

Furthermore, when the electrolytically reduced water is alkaline having a pH of about 9 to 10, the ultrafine powdered chlorella particles can further increase the extraction efficiency of active ingredients such as chlorophyll, amino acids, vitamins, minerals, etc. Most of the active ingredients in the particles are extracted into the flow.

The third step of the processing method of the present invention is a drying step. That is, in the third step, the fluid obtained by extracting the active ingredient from the powdered chlorella particles obtained in the second step is dried by a dryer to evaporate moisture in the fluid. It is a process of removing and taking out as a lump dry powder chlorella containing the extracted active ingredient.

In the processing method of the present invention, the drying by the dryer may be any of the drying using a dryer, such as heat drying using a spray dryer or roaster, low temperature drying using a low temperature dryer, or freeze drying using freeze drying. Although a drying method can also be used, in order to prevent deterioration of active ingredients such as chlorophyll, amino acids, vitamins, and minerals, preferably low temperature drying by a low temperature dryer or freeze drying by freeze drying is recommended.

The 4th process of this invention processing method is a crushing process of dry powder chlorella. That is, in the fourth step, since the dry powder chlorella after the moisture evaporating through the drying step in the third step evaporates, the dry powder chlorella is agglomerated, so that the dry powder chlorella is compressed into a powdery final product or tableted. In order to obtain a final product such as a powder, the pulverization of the massive dry powder chlorella is performed with a predetermined particle size using a pulverizer or the like.

After the completion of the fourth step, for example, in the case of making a health food with 100% dry powdered chlorella made into ultrafine particles, the dry powder chlorella made into ultrafine particles is packaged as it is or is made into ultrafine particles. When other ingredients are added to and mixed with the dry powder chlorella to obtain a health food, for example, it is tableted by a tableting machine to obtain a tablet-like product.

1 is an overall system diagram of an ultrafine particle forming apparatus used in a processing method for chlorella powder of the present invention. It is a schematic longitudinal cross-sectional view of the ultrafine particle-ized apparatus used in the processing method of chlorella powder of this invention. It is a right view of the 1st disk which comprises the ultrafine particle apparatus used in the processing method of this invention chlorella powder. It is AA longitudinal cross-sectional view of FIG. It is a left view of the 2nd disk which comprises the ultrafine particle-ized apparatus used in the processing method of chlorella powder of this invention. It is BB longitudinal cross-sectional view of FIG. It is a perspective view of the 1st disk and the 2nd disk which constitute the ultrafine particle device used in the processing method of the chlorella powder of the present invention. It is a longitudinal cross-sectional view of the principal part of the ultrafine particle-ized apparatus used in the processing method of chlorella powder of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

M: Ultrafine particle device 13: Ultrafine particle member 16: First disk 16a, 16b: Through hole 16c: First guide groove 17: Second disk 17a, 17b: Through hole 17c: Second guide groove 36 : First disc 36a: Through hole 36c: Guide groove 37: Second disc 37a: Through hole 37c: Guide groove

Claims (2)

A commercially available chlorella powder whose cell wall is not crushed is finely pulverized into fine powder chlorella particles, and then 15 to 25% by weight of the powder chlorella particles are obtained by electrolyzing tap water or natural water. The mixture is mixed and stirred by adding and mixing in 75 to 85% by weight of electrolytically reduced water containing no chlorine, having a redox potential of 200 mV or less and containing active hydrogen. A first step of adjusting the powder chlorella particles to be uniformly dispersed in the electrolytic reduced water to obtain a fluid of the powder chlorella particles and the electrolytic reduced water;
In the first step, a flow material in which powdered chlorella particles are dispersed in the electrolytically reduced water is introduced into an ultrafine particle making device and collided at a high pressure to make the entire powder chlorella particles ultrafine particles. A second step of crushing and extracting the active ingredient in the cell wall into the fluid,
In the second step, the flow material obtained by crushing the cell wall by extracting ultrafine particles and extracting the active ingredient is dried by a dryer to evaporate and remove the water in the flow material. A third step of taking out as a bulk dry powder chlorella containing the active ingredient,
A method for processing chlorella powder, comprising: pulverizing the dried powder chlorella taken out as a lump in the third step and processing the fourth step to obtain a predetermined particle size. A commercially available chlorella powder whose cell wall is not crushed is finely pulverized into fine powder chlorella particles, and then 15 to 25% by weight of the powder chlorella particles are obtained by electrolyzing tap water or natural water. The mixture is mixed and stirred by adding and mixing in 75 to 85% by weight of electrolytically reduced water containing no chlorine, having a redox potential of 200 mV or less and containing active hydrogen. A first step of adjusting the powder chlorella particles to be uniformly dispersed in the electrolytic reduced water to obtain a fluid of the powder chlorella particles and the electrolytic reduced water;
In the first step, if necessary, the step of crushing the cell wall by throwing the liquid material in which the powdered chlorella particles are dispersed in the electrolytically reduced water into the ultrafine particle making device and colliding with high pressure is necessary a plurality of times. In addition, 2 to 10% by weight of the electrolytically reduced water is newly mixed in the fluid and repeated, and the cell wall is crushed by making the whole powder chlorella particles into ultrafine particles, so that the active ingredient in the cell wall A second step of extracting into the fluid;
In the second step, the flow material obtained by crushing the cell wall and extracting the active ingredient by making ultrafine particles is dried by a dryer to evaporate and remove the water in the flow material. A third step of taking out as a bulk dry powder chlorella containing the active ingredient,
A method for processing chlorella powder, comprising: pulverizing the dried powder chlorella taken out as a lump in the third step and processing the fourth step to obtain a predetermined particle size.

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