JP2007049955A - Food for obesity prevention - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a food for obesity prevention, using a naturally occurring material as it is, and enabling efficient decrease of weight in a condition of ingesting sufficient nutrition. <P>SOLUTION: This food for obesity prevention is obtained by adding star anise or fennel to a food material. An amount of star anise or fennel added is at least 0.001 mass% based on the total amount. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a food effective for suppressing an excessive increase in body weight and preventing obesity.

  In recent years, with the Westernization of dietary habits in Japan, fat intake has increased significantly, and overeating and lack of exercise have tended to last for a long time. It has increased and has become a social problem.

  In other words, obesity is one of the causes of so-called lifestyle-related diseases such as cancer, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension, and as the number of obese people increases, the number of patients with lifestyle-related diseases is rapidly increasing. It has become a big issue.

  By the way, obesity puts a burden on many organs, which causes health problems, and diet is one of the various means for preventing obesity. Food has been proposed.

  Such diet foods contain low energy and bulky dietary fiber, such as diet / diabetic food containing water-soluble dietary fiber and insoluble calcium compound (see Patent Document 1), L-arabinose and food Diet foods containing fiber (see Patent Document 2), foods that give a feeling of satiety and reduce meals, for example, foods that contain a cross-linked product that gives a long-lasting satiety effect (see Patent Document 3), Mixed rice with improved satiety (see Patent Documents 4 and 5), foods with reduced absorption in the body, such as oil and fat compositions with reduced digestibility (see Patent Document 6), indigestible additives Mixed foods and beverages (see Patent Document 7), foods containing D-glucose absorption inhibitors (see Patent Document 8), foods containing obesity-improving ingredients such as soybean saponin compound Food containing sucrose and a pigment component extracted from crude brown sugar (see Patent Document 9), anti-obesity food containing azoxaponin (see Patent Document 10), water-soluble peptide obtained by enzymatic treatment of beef and effective Dietary foods using obesity-improving and diet food materials (see Patent Document 11) comprising water-soluble ingredients, water-soluble peptides obtained by electrodialysis of livestock meat extracts and active water-soluble ingredients (Patent Document 12) Reference), a marine-derived peptide obtained by enzymatic degradation, a plant-derived peptide, and / or a diet-processed food material containing a marine polyphenol component-containing food (see Patent Document 13).

  However, since these foods contain additives processed from natural products, they are unavoidably expensive compared to foods made from natural materials, and the foods originally have them. The purpose is to reduce nutrients and reduce intake, which may cause nutritional disorders.

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  An object of the present invention is to provide a food for preventing obesity, which can use a natural-derived material as it is, ingest sufficient nutrients, and efficiently reduce body weight.

  As a result of intensive research to develop a new food for preventing obesity, the present inventors have found that the food contains an octagonal fennel that is produced in the tropical forest of southern China or a fennel that is native to Europe. The present inventors have found that a diet effect can be obtained in a natural state without applying the above, and have made the present invention based on this finding.

  That is, this invention provides the food for obesity prevention characterized by adding octagonal fennel or fennel to the food material.

  Octagonal fennel used in the present invention is a fruit of the magnoliaceae Toshikimi (scientific name Star anise) produced in the tropical forest of southern China. It is used as a specific medicine for cold abdominal pain and cold and humid breath. It is also used to color Chinese food ingredients and liqueurs. And this octagonal fennel contains essential oils such as α-pinene, β-pinene, ferrandolene, limonene, cineole, in addition to 90-95% by mass of anethole.

  On the other hand, fennel is a ripe fruit of the celery family perennial (Fennel) native to Europe, and is known to have a stomachic and expectorant effect. It is used as. And this fennel contains essential oils such as anethole, foncon, pinene, camphor, methyl jabinol, anisaldehyde, ferrandrene, limonene, oschimen, cymen, myrcene.

  As described above, octagonal fennel and fennel are known to have various pharmacological actions, and even if they have been used as herbal medicines in traditional Chinese medicine, It has not been known at all that it suppresses weight gain when ingested and is effective in preventing obesity.

  In the present invention, such octagonal fennel or fennel is pulverized to a particle size of 200 μm or less, and the powder is added to a food material to prepare a normal food form to obtain a food for preventing obesity.

The food materials to which this octagonal fennel or fennel is added are those that are processed as daily foods such as carbohydrate-based, fat-based, protein-based, or mixtures thereof, and are taken as meals or snacks It can be chosen arbitrarily and there is no particular limitation.
Examples of food forms using such food materials include bread, rice cakes, noodles, rice, dairy products, edible oils and fats, confectionery, jam, honey, egg products, and beverages.

  In the present invention, octagonal fennel or fennel powder is added to these food materials at a ratio of at least 0.001 mass%, preferably at least 0.01 mass% based on the total amount. If the addition amount is less than 0.001% by mass, a sufficient anti-obesity effect cannot be obtained. Although there is no restriction | limiting in particular in the upper limit of addition amount, Since the original flavor of food will be spoiled when adding too much, it is preferable to make it not exceed 10 mass%. The most preferable range of addition amount is 0.05 to 5% by mass.

  In the food for preventing obesity of the present invention, additives that are commonly used in ordinary foods, for example, seasonings, food emulsifiers, nutrients, fragrances, colorants, supplements, preservatives, antioxidants, etc., are used in the food for preventing obesity of the present invention. Can be added.

  According to the present invention, a highly safe food for preventing obesity can be obtained by using easily available plant-derived powder.

  Next, the best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described by way of examples, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

Reference example Corn starch 46.8% by weight, casein 20% by weight, sucrose 15% by weight, lard 6% by weight, cellulose powder 5% by weight, mixed mineral 4% by weight, mixed vitamin 2% by weight, l-methionine 0.2% by weight In addition, an octagonal fennel powder or a food containing 1% by mass of fennel powder was prepared, and this diet was fed to 10 male 3 month-old male CD-1 mice daily at 4.36 g / animal for 90 days.
In addition, to 10 animals in the control group, no food was added to octagonal fennel or fennel powder 1% by mass, and the food supplemented with corn starch to give 47.8% by mass. The change in body weight of the mice up to 90 days was measured, and the results are shown as a graph in FIG.
In the figure, ● represents a control group, ○ represents an octagonal fennel added group, and Δ represents a fennel added group.

  As can be seen from this figure, the mice fed with foods with added octagonal fennel or fennel powder have clearly less weight gain than mice fed with foods without the addition. From this, it can be seen that octagonal fennel and fennel have an anti-obesity effect.

Prepare two balls, and mix 60 g of sucrose (sugar), 6.5 g of salt, 2 eggs, 6 g of octagonal fennel and 190 g of water in one bowl.
Put 500g of flour and 5g of powdered yeast in the other bowl and shake well.
Next, add 1/2 of the mixture of flour and powdered yeast well mixed in this way to the first bowl and mix well, then add the remaining mixture and butter and mix well. Put it in a lump.
The dough lump is struck on the table for about 100 times, put into a bowl, covered with wrap, and allowed to stand at room temperature for 90 minutes for fermentation. After completion of fermentation, degas and ferment for an additional 30 minutes.
Next, this dough mass is divided into 40 g portions, left for 15 minutes, kept at about 60 ° C., and further fermented for 50 minutes. Since this expands about 2.5 times, egg yolk is applied to the surface, placed in an oven, and baked at 200-210 ° C. for 10 minutes.
In this manner, an anti-obesity butter roll containing octagonal fennel is obtained.

A buckwheat raw material powder is prepared by adding 3 g of fennel powder to a mixture of 400 g of buckwheat flour and 100 g of wheat flour and mixing well. Next, add water little by little and knead to make a dough of the earlobe. The dough is rolled out while being crushed with the palm of the hand, and then wound around a rolling pin and sprinkled with flour to repeat the operation until the thickness reaches 1 to 1.5 mm.
After making the dough thin in this way, it is folded to an appropriate width and cut into a width of about 2 mm with a knife to make a noodle material.
Next, put this noodle material in boiling water, boil it, scoop it up and wash it under running water.
Thus, obesity prevention buckwheat is obtained.
The foods obtained in Examples 1 and 2 are all the same in appearance as those having no octagonal fennel or fennel, and when this was sampled by a plurality of adults, both of them changed particularly in terms of aroma and taste. There was no opinion that it was.

  The food for preventing obesity of the present invention can be widely used as a food for preventing lifestyle-related diseases or a health food.

The graph which shows a time-dependent body weight change when an octagonal fennel or fennel is administered to a mouse | mouth.

Claims (2)

  An anti-obesity food characterized by adding octagonal fennel or fennel to food ingredients.   The food for preventing obesity according to claim 1, wherein the amount of octagonal fennel or fennel is at least 0.001% by mass based on the total amount.

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