JP3001880B1 - Foods containing wheat leaves - Google Patents

Abstract

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a food containing wheat young leaf powder and having a blood purification effect. SOLUTION: A food containing wheat young leaf powder, water-soluble dietary fiber, oligosaccharide and lactic acid bacteria.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a processed food containing wheat young leaf powder.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, green vegetables or green leaves have been powdered to produce foods. For example,
JP-A-7-69910 describes that dried powder of Moroheiya leaves is used as a food material. These vegetable or green leaf powders contain a large amount of dietary fiber, but are mainly insoluble dietary fiber that is not decomposed in the intestine, and are often used for purposes such as improving the intestinal environment.

[0003] Attempts have been made to provide a treatment in which a part of insoluble dietary fiber is solubilized in the intestine and decomposed in the intestine (JP-A-3-175951).

[0004] On the other hand, wheat young leaves, like Moroheiya,
Used as a health food. For example, JP-A-59-
No. 1,730,633 describes a method of pulverizing an extract of wheat young leaves, mixing it with kinako and the like to form a tablet. A method of pulverizing wheat young leaves is described in Japanese Patent No. 2544302.

[0005] However, since wheat barley leaf extract does not contain dietary fiber, and conversely wheat barley leaf powder contains a large amount of insoluble dietary fiber, the function when these are used alone is limited. Effective usage is required.

[0006]

Therefore, there is a need for a processed food that can effectively utilize wheat young leaf powder.

[0007]

Means for Solving the Problems The present inventors have made intensive studies on foods that can effectively utilize wheat young leaf powder, and as a result, mixed water-soluble dietary fiber, oligosaccharides and lactic acid bacteria with wheat young leaf powder in an optimal ratio. As a result, they have found that the blood purification effect is dramatically improved, and have completed the present invention.

[0008]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION In the present invention, wheat young leaf powder refers to barley,
Wheat, rye, oats and other young wheat grains are powdered. The powdering method is described in, for example, Japanese Patent No. 254430.
No. 2 discloses this.

The food containing wheat leaf powder according to the present invention is effective for dietary treatment for diabetes because it has a prophylactic effect on colorectal cancer, improves intestinal environment, suppresses cholesterol absorption, and suppresses postprandial blood glucose elevation. There is an effect that there is.

The processed food of the present invention contains a water-soluble dietary fiber. Wheat young leaf powder contains dietary fiber, but most of it is insoluble dietary fiber. Insoluble dietary fiber has a colorectal cancer preventive effect and an intestinal environment improving effect. By adding water-soluble dietary fiber to this, the effect of suppressing the absorption of cholesterol and the effect of suppressing the increase in postprandial blood glucose level are enhanced.

Oligosaccharides are assimilated by intestinal bacteria,
Since it is generally considered to improve the intestinal environment, it has the same function as insoluble dietary fiber, namely, a colorectal cancer prevention effect,
It is thought to act to improve the intestinal environment. Lactic acid bacteria are also thought to improve the intestinal environment. Therefore, it was thought that the addition of these to young wheat leaf powder containing a large amount of insoluble dietary fiber would not have any new effect. It has been found that by adding lactic acid bacteria and lactic acid bacteria, the function of the water-soluble dietary fiber, the suppression of cholesterol absorption, and the effect of suppressing the increase in postprandial blood glucose level are dramatically improved.

Examples of the water-soluble dietary fiber include alginic acid, indigestible dextrin, enzymatically decomposed guar gum, and glucomannan. The water-soluble dietary fiber is preferably contained in the nutritional supplement at 1% to 50% by weight, more preferably at 5% to 40% by weight.

[0013] As lactic acid bacteria, Lactobacillus acidophi
lus, Lactobacillus casei, Streptococcus thermophil
Us or the like is used. When lactic acid bacteria are used, powdery or liquid foods are preferable. After culturing in an appropriate medium, freeze-drying and adding to processed foods, they can grow when given water.

The amount of the lactic acid bacterium to be added is preferably 0.1% by weight to 10% by weight in the nutritional supplement, more preferably
It is 0.5% by weight to 5% by weight.

Examples of the oligosaccharide include lactulose, palatinose, fructooligosaccharide, raffinose, stachyose, xylo-oligosaccharide, maltooligosaccharide, trehalose, galacto-oligosaccharide and the like. The added amount of the oligosaccharide is preferably 0.1% to 30% by weight, more preferably 1% to 5% by weight.

Further, as a nutritional supplement, for example, royal jelly, vitamin, protein, calcium, chitosan, lecithin and the like are blended, and powdered, granular, soft encapsulated or liquid. In addition, a sugar solution or a seasoning can be added to adjust the taste, and powdery, granular, and soft capsules may be drunk as they are, or may be dissolved in water or the like and drunk.

The amount of wheat young leaf powder is preferably 1% by weight to 90% by weight, more preferably 10% by weight, in the nutritional supplement.
% To 70% by weight, more preferably 30% by weight to
50% by weight.

[0018]

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described with reference to examples.
The present invention is not limited to this embodiment. Barley young leaf powder was used as the young leaf powder. Barley young leaf powder is patent 2544
No. 302. Further, pine fiber (containing 50 to 60% of dietary fiber) manufactured by Matsutani Chemical Industry was used as the water-soluble dietary fiber.

Example 1 A powdered nutritional supplement containing barley young leaf powder was prepared according to the following formulation.

[0020]

[Table 1]

Five basic rats supplemented with 10% by weight of each of the above nutritional supplements A to C were fed to 5 to 4 week old young rats, and their blood was collected 6 weeks later to remove serum cholesterol. It was measured. In addition, the blood glucose level was measured on the day of administration and 60 minutes after eating six weeks later.

The basic feed was 25% milk casein,
Corn oil 5%, Harper's mineral mixture 4%, Harper's vitamin mixture 1%, choline chloride 0.2%, sugar 64.8% (% by weight).

The results are shown in Table 2.

[0024]

[Table 2]

With respect to both serum cholesterol and blood sugar levels, the supplements A and B showed only a slight improvement effect compared to the basic feed, but the addition of C provided a dramatic improvement effect. Was done.

Example 2 A powdered nutritional supplement containing young barley powder was prepared according to the following formulation. Barley young leaf powder 45 g Pine fiber 35 g Oligosaccharide 3 g Lactic acid bacteria 3 g Eggshell calcium 5 g Reduced maltose 5 g Matcha 4 g

When 3 g of this nutritional supplement was dissolved in 150 ml of water and drunk three times a day, the number and amount of stool that had been stagnant increased in a few days. In addition, three months after drinking daily, serum cholesterol and blood glucose levels had decreased.

[0028]

The processed food containing wheat leaf powder, water-soluble dietary fiber, oligosaccharide and lactic acid bacterium of the present invention has a novel blood purifying effect of not only lowering serum cholesterol but also lowering blood sugar level. It has a great effect.

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Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A processed food containing wheat leaf powder, water-soluble dietary fiber, oligosaccharides and lactic acid bacteria, and having a blood purification effect.