JP4045060B2 - Deep water beverage containing mineral components derived from mineral spring water - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a mineral-containing deep water beverage that can effectively replenish mineral water and mineral components derived from mineral spring water, and a method for producing the same.
[0002]
[Prior art]
In today's diversified society, the needs for consumer materials such as food and beverages have also diversified, and various ideas and improvements have been made against the background of health and taste, and many new products have been put into consumer life. Yes.
Even in beverages, carbonated drinks, coffee drinks, juices, etc. have been widely used in the past, but it is said that taking these saccharides, caffeine, etc., which are the main components, has an adverse effect on health, In recent years, consumers have gained popularity as sports drinks with the same components as healthy green tea and body fluids as a health drink due to the separation of sweetness, and mineral water as delicious water that replaces tap water due to the deterioration of the quality of tap water. Such health-oriented and delicious-oriented trends are expected to increase further in the future.
Among such health drinks, mineral drinks containing essential minerals and vitamins such as magnesium, calcium and iron, which are often lacking by Japanese people, have attracted attention for their excellent health functionality. Yes.
[0003]
Mineral ingredients extracted from ores are mainly beverages that contain mineral ingredients, such as mineral water that springs in the mountains and mineral water drawn from the ground, filtered and sterilized. Is added to tap water, well water, etc., and for such synthetic mineral water, ore containing mineral is filled in the electrolytic layer or water as described in JP-A-9-164390. A cartridge containing a water-soluble mineral salt such as calcium sulfate is placed in the middle of a pipe such as a water pipe as disclosed in JP-A-9-18777. Moreover, what adds a mineral etc. to drinking water, such as a tap water which flows in the inside of piping, is disclosed. In these mineral beverages, natural mineral water has a low content of mineral components and is satisfactory as delicious water, but it is unsatisfactory from the viewpoint of mineral supplementation, and has a synthetic content as described in the above publication. Although essential mineral components such as calcium, magnesium and iron can be adjusted as needed, they are used for home use and are not suitable for commercialization as health drinks. Natural and synthetic mineral waters are not satisfactory as health drinks because they do not contain essential trace minerals such as copper and zinc and lack mineral balance.
Seawater is a source of all minerals and mineral resources on earth, and occupies most of the earth's water resources. However, it is mostly used as salt because of its salt content. However, its use as drinking water has been used by desalinating seawater at a high cost only in dry areas such as desert areas and remote islands without freshwater resources.
[0004]
However, in recent years, it has been confirmed that metals and iodine such as copper and zinc, as well as calcium and magnesium, are essential minerals of the body as mineral components, and in seawater containing various minerals in addition to calcium and magnesium. Attention has been made and attempts have been made to use this mineral. JP-A-60-255729 discloses nutrition by adding vitamins to seawater that has been desalted to reduce the sodium chloride content. A beverage has been proposed. After that, even in the case of seawater, the deep water of 100 to 10000m has very few dissolved organic matter in the seawater, the number of viable bacteria is very small compared to the surface water, and there are almost no pathogenic organisms. From the fact that the safety when employed for drinking is high, JP-A-5-219921 discloses that such deep water is added to drinking water such as natural mineral water to form a mineral beverage. Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-150960 discloses that a mineral beverage is obtained by adding bitter juice and mineral acid extracted from seawater to water desalted by reverse osmosis membrane treatment using deep water as seawater. No. 4672 discloses that seawater mineral crystals obtained from citric acid and deep water are dissolved in water to form a health drink. Thus, the use of minerals in deep water is expected to increase in the future with the development of health drinks and health foods. At this time, since the mineral content is collected by processing such as reverse osmosis and electrodialysis, fresh water is also produced, and such fresh water has a trace amount of mineral content, and this property is effectively utilized including this property. It is hoped that.
[0005]
[Problem to be Solved by the Invention]
The present invention is based on the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and adds value to the water after desalting deep seawater for effective use, and as a future beverage that should satisfy taste orientation and health orientation, It is an object to obtain a mineral deep-sea water beverage that has a good quality.
[0006]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
The present invention basically uses a mineral component collected from natural mineral water derived from mineral spring water as a mineral source, and uses a deep water obtained by desalinating seawater as a raw water for adding these mineral components. It is a special feature.
The configuration of the present invention basically comprises the following (1) to (5).
(1) A beverage obtained by adding mineral components collected from natural mineral water to water obtained by desalting seawater, and the beverage has a hardness measured by (2) EDTA method of 100 to 3,000. thing. Preferably, (3) the hardness measured by the EDTA method is 250 or 1,000. In addition, (4) the taste is adjusted with sugar and acidulant. And this beverage is (5) whether the collected seawater is desalted and separated into water and a concentrated solution, and then the concentrated water is added to the separated water to increase the mineral content. Or manufactured by adding water-soluble mineral components collected from mineral spring water.
[0007]
The present invention is described in detail below.
The present invention realizes a mineral-containing deep water beverage with a well-balanced mineral that can sufficiently supply delicious mineral water similar to natural mineral water and daily essential minerals necessary for health.
[0008]
The present invention uses raw water obtained by desalinating seawater that has hardly been used until now, and by adding mineral components of mineral water to the mineral water, New beverages containing minerals from mountains can be realized.
The seawater used in the present invention is clean seawater with few suspended matters and harmful substances. As such seawater, deep seawater with a depth of 100 m to 10,000 m, preferably 200 to 1,000 m is suitable.
Further, the desalination treatment of deep seawater of the present invention removes sodium chloride as in the case of salt production, and various conventional methods can be used, but the reverse osmosis membrane method, electrodialysis method or evaporation concentration method is preferred. By the desalting treatment, the seawater is separated into fresh water and concentrated liquid, so-called brine, and this fresh water is used as a raw water for beverage production.
[0009]
On the other hand, mineral water contains much less mineral component than seawater, so the mineral component can be added to natural mineral water using the reverse osmosis membrane method, electrodialysis method, evaporative concentration method, etc. Thus, a concentrated liquid or a mineral content obtained by concentrating the mineral component is deposited and used as a water-soluble solid.
And the novel mineral-containing new deep-sea-water drink which added the required amount according to the target mineral water to the fresh water taken out from seawater as a concentrate or a solid substance with the mineral content of the said mineral water can be obtained.
Thus, in this invention, since a mineral component is added separately, adjustment of a mineral component is easy.
[0010]
The mineral beverages thus obtained are mainly composed of sodium, magnesium, calcium and potassium, which are the most important minerals for the human body, and the mixing ratio of the two minerals magnesium and calcium is arbitrary. However, it is preferable to adjust the weight ratio of magnesium to calcium (Mg / Ca) from 4/1 to 1/3. This is because when the weight ratio of magnesium to calcium is larger than 4, bitterness is produced and it becomes difficult to drink, and when the weight ratio of calcium to magnesium is larger than 3, the taste becomes hard. In addition, it is said that the current calcium intake status is 570 mg for 600 mg per day and the magnesium intake status is 200 mg for 300 mg. However, it is preferable to adjust the weight ratio of magnesium to calcium (Mg / Ca) to 3/1 in terms of taste.
[0011]
Hardness is an important factor affecting the taste and ease of drinking in beverages.
The hardness of the present invention is an index representing the content of magnesium ions and calcium ions in water, and is expressed in terms of calcium carbonate. The hardness is measured by the EDTA method. The hardness of the beverage of the present invention is preferably from 100 to 3,000, and if it is less than 100, the content of the main minerals and essential trace minerals of magnesium and calcium is too small, and if it exceeds 3,000, the taste becomes hard and drinks. It becomes difficult. Therefore, the hardness is preferably 500 to 1,500 from the viewpoint of easy drinking and the intake of minerals.
Here, from the viewpoint of mineral supplementation and taste, the hardness is preferably 1,000, and when used for cooking such as rice cooking, a hardness of 250 is desirable because of its versatility. Moreover, in this invention, you may add sugar content, a sour agent, various vitamins, etc. from the deliciousness as a drink, and the ease of drinking. As a result, delicate flavors such as sweetness and sourness are produced, and vitamins and the like are also supplemented.
[0012]
[Effects of the Invention]
Since the mineral-containing deep water beverage of the present invention contains a variety of minerals from mineral water and trace minerals remaining in the raw water as they are, even if it is synthetic mineral water, Similarly, a subtle flavor can be produced as a beverage. By adjusting the ingredients by increasing the amount added, abundant minerals can be included to exert health functions.
Moreover, since raw material water is removing sodium chloride sufficiently, it is not salty and does not have a bad influence on the health of sodium chloride. In addition, since this raw material water is refined by desalting treatment, it does not have a taste and can be properly seasoned, so it is easy to drink, healthy and refreshing, and has sufficient properties for consumers. A satisfactory beverage is obtained.
In addition, because there is no taste in the taste as described above, fruit juice ingredients and vitamins can be added, and it can function as a nutritional drink reinforced with nutritional ingredients, and by adding medicinal ingredients it also functions to promote health it can. In addition, sodium or potassium can be added specially to make a drink for sweating after working or sports.
[0013]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Embodiments of the present invention will be specifically described based on examples.
[Example 1]
Seawater collected from a depth of 300 m was separated into water and brine concentrated mineral water using a conventional reverse osmosis membrane method. Next, a mineral spring water containing 15 mg of sodium, 11 mg of calcium, 1 mg of potassium, 5 mg of magnesium per liter is concentrated 10 times by an evaporation concentration method, and a concentrated solution of 150 mg of sodium, 110 mg of calcium, 10 mg of potassium, 50 mg of magnesium per liter. Got. One part of this concentrated solution was added to 9 parts of water obtained by the reverse osmosis membrane method to obtain mineral water having the same mineral content as the mineral water and the mineral derived from the sea.
[0014]
[Example 2]
Sodium concentrate is removed from the concentrate from the mineral spring water to prepare a concentrate of 110 mg calcium per liter and 50 mg potassium 10 mg magnesium, and 1 part of this concentrate is added to 1 part of fresh water of Example 1, A deep mineral water beverage containing 55 mg calcium per liter, 5 mg potassium 5 mg magnesium and 25 mg magnesium per liter and containing a trace amount of minerals derived from the sea was prepared.
[0015]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, the beverage of the present invention can effectively use fresh water discharged during production of salt from seawater and mineral production with added health functions, and contains various minerals derived from seamounts. As a result, it has the same flavor as natural mineral water, and can also contain a lot of minerals by adjusting the mineral content, so that it can exert its health function.
Moreover, since sodium chloride is removed sufficiently, it is not salty and there is no adverse effect on the health of sodium chloride. In addition, since the raw material water to which minerals are added is refined by desalting, it does not have a taste and can add fruit raw materials and vitamins, and can serve as a nutritional drink with enhanced nutritional components. In addition, by adding medicinal ingredients, the function of health promotion can be exhibited. Moreover, since sodium and potassium can be added specially and it can also be set as the sweat corresponding drink after a working or sport, it is optimal as a health drink.

Claims (5)

Water obtained by desalting deep water is added with water-soluble mineral components derived from mineral water to contain minerals derived from the sea and mountains, and Mg / Ca is 4/1 to 1 / A deep water drink characterized by being in the range of 3 .   The deep water drink according to claim 1, wherein the hardness measured by the EDTA method is 100 to 3,000.   Hardness measured by EDTA method is 250 or 1,000, The deep water drink of Claim 2 characterized by the above-mentioned.   The deep water drink according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the taste is adjusted with a sugar or a sour agent. The collected deep water is desalted and separated into water and a concentrated solution, and then the separated water is concentrated with a mineral water to increase the mineral content, or a water solution collected from the mineral water. A method for producing a deep-water beverage comprising adding a mineral component, containing a mineral derived from the sea and a mineral derived from a mountain, and having Mg / Ca in a range of 4/1 to 1/3 .