JPH07184545A - Health food - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain a readily drinkable health tea useful for preventing and treating atopic eczema and asthema, enhancing immune response, excellent flavor, color tone and palatability by mixing a dried plant drinkable as tea with a dried material such as a tannin-containing plant, etc. CONSTITUTION:This health tea is obtained by mixing one or more dried plants generally drinkable as tea by decoction or percolation with one or more dried plants of tannin-containing plants and flavonoid-containing plants having eliminating action on active oxygen or free radicals, generally drinkable by decoction or percolation or one or more of their extracts and further preferably one or more of adlay, barley and rye.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a health tea used as a favorite beverage, a health beverage or a beauty beverage.

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2. Description of the Related Art The term "healthy tea" is a beverage of choice, and at the same time, it is effective in preventing and treating diseases, or can be supplemented with specific nutrients.
It is used as a general term for items that can be expected to have a beauty effect.

The present inventors have also been able to naturally ingest a specific nutrient for a long time (Japanese Patent Application No. 60-224365).
Rooibos tea (Japanese Patent Application No. 4), which has been developed and has a strong superoxide dismutase-like activity (hereinafter referred to as SOD-like activity) and has been proved effective against allergic diseases. (250669)
Have been researching about. However, the raw material for rooibos tea grows only in the area of the Sedalberg Mountains, which is located in the southernmost tip of South Africa, and its distribution is controlled by the South African government, so the supply and demand situation is unstable.

On the other hand, recently, it has become more and more clear that free radicals cause various diseases (Pharmacia Vol. 29, No. 9, p971 to 1002,
(Published in 1993), aging, carcinogenesis, and its involvement in cancer control are well known. In recent years, air pollution has been cited as one of the causes of increasing prevalence of allergic diseases in the population. For example, in the case of automobile exhaust gas, the black soot in it emits a large amount of active oxygen, It has recently been found that this causes allergic symptoms. If active oxygen is the direct cause of allergic diseases, an active oxygen scavenger may be administered, but the relationship between patients with allergic diseases and foods and drinks that have active oxygen scavenging effects should be studied over a long period of time. There are, of course, very few papers currently published. However, the long-term study of the relationship between patients with allergic diseases and rooibos tea was published by Anneke Theron (Babas, Allergiee en Ro.
oibostee, 1974, Verwoerdburg). It describes dozens of effective cases in detail, and the effective daily dose for allergic diseases is clearly defined in a narrow range, and the effective daily dose of SOD-like activity in rooibos tea is now clear. The value can be measured and known quantitatively.

Therefore, a highly stable SOD-like active ingredient is contained in the normally used dose, and it has a palatable flavor suitable for tea, and it is normally ingested as a food or drink. If there is no problem with safety, it is ideal as a functional food.

Although various types of health tea are distributed in the market,
As for its functional usefulness, the majority are folklore. Even though it is a food and drink, healthy tea is more than a food effect such as simply preventing health or maintaining good health, it is treated against a specific disease, or at least when taken at the time of that disease, it cannot be used for anything else. There was little to say on the basis of certain scientific facts that this was better than a beverage. Rooibos tea is the only tea that is said to have a food effect on allergic diseases. However, rooibos tea is in a situation where stable supply cannot be expected as mentioned above.

Therefore, the present inventors have (1) stably available in Japan, (2) have a strong SOD-like activity like rooibos tea, and (3) food, especially drinking tea. Can be used as, (4) has no off-flavor and is highly palatable, (5)
The color when brewed or brewed as tea is tea-like and there is no resistance, and (6) the amount used is not bulky within the range of common sense as tea,
(7) We have devoted ourselves to the development of healthy tea that satisfies the seven conditions of being reasonably priced. However, above (1), (2) and
Regarding the conditions of (3), as a result of conducting extensive research and study at the time of the development of health tea (Japanese Patent Application No. 4-250669) currently under application, it was found that tannin-containing plants and flavonoid-containing plants contained We have found one with strong SOD-like activity, but still required a significant amount to exert an effect similar to rooibos tea and therefore did not meet the requirement of (6). To meet the requirement of (4),
A palatability study, centered on sensory tests, was required to determine the combination of the main tea constituents and the ingredients that increased activity. Further, in order to impart the requirement of (5) and the accompanying favorable flavor, it was also fermented under various conditions with various vegetables, fruits, seeds, fruits, etc. that are usually used for food, I couldn't solve the problem.

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In view of the above situation, the present invention provides an SOD-like activity equivalent to that of rooibos tea, which is easily and inexpensively stably supplied in Japan and within the range of the amount used as ordinary tea. It is effective not only against allergic diseases, especially atopic eczema and asthma by regular use, but also enhances immunity, has a beauty effect, is easy to drink with good flavor and color, and has excellent stability. The purpose of the present invention is to provide healthy tea having excellent functionality.

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Therefore, the health tea of the present invention is brewed or brewed by brewing or brewing it into one or more dry plants that are usually served as tea. According to the present invention, one kind or two or more kinds of dried products of tannin-containing plants or flavonoid-containing plants usually used for drinking or their extracts are blended.

The dried plants are preferably roasted plants, and the tannin-containing plants or flavonoid-containing plants preferably have active oxygen or free radical scavenging activity.

The dried plant is preferably one having an antiallergic effect, suppressing the permeability of capillaries, and containing vitamin C, hesperidin and the like. The main dried plants that meet these conditions are barley, pearl barley, wheat germ, sword-flies, dokudami, kumazasa, sweet tea, green tea, gyokuro, sencha, oolong tea, hojicha,
And dried leaves such as ashitaba, madder, kaya, honeysuckle, nepenthes, apple, peach, pear, spruce, oyster, nanten, akebi, lion, willow, weedbird, horsetail, chestnut, bindweed, kudzu, red clover, armyworm. be able to.

The above-mentioned tannin-containing plant or flavonoid-containing plant is blended as a potency enhancing component. The main thing is containing tannin plants, wintergreen, Hypericum, Noazami, Inushouma, Cimicifuga, Hepatica nobilis, perilla, pomegranate, cinnamon, Scutellaria, lime, shear, bistorta officinalis, mizuhiki, Ooketade, sorrel, Mallotus japonicus, horse chestnut,
Examples include butterflies, mugwort, witch hazel, and the like. The main flavonoid-containing plants are sedges, yab cycads, sions, euglena, henruda,
Examples thereof include forsythia, kobushi, akebi, wolfberry, citrus unshiu, mosquito, licorice, red clover and the like. These exemplified plants have a peculiar scent and taste when the dried product is directly used as tea, but when extracted, most of the odorous components are volatilized, and tannin and tannin during the concentration process for forming the extract. Part of the phenolic compound is oxidatively polymerized to develop a preferable brownish color tone.

Further, in the present invention, rutin extracted and purified from the tannin-containing plant or flavonoid-containing plant,
Hesperidin, carotene, sesaminol, chlorogenic acid, oryzanol and the like can also be added.

Further, in the present invention, various spices having a preferable odor can be blended, including plants containing a sweetening component as a flavoring component. This may be a barley tea-based flavor or a roasted green tea flavor that does not get tired of being used for a long period of time. Therefore, the inventors of the present invention have adopted, in view of the gist of the product of the present invention, pearl barley which is effective for skin diseases and has a well-established effect on the skin beautifying effect.

Next, in order to prepare the health tea of the present invention, for example, when a stream extract of a tannin-containing plant or a flavonoid plant is used, this stream extract is prepared according to the general rules of formulation of the Japanese Pharmacopoeia. . This stream extract contains 1 g of water-soluble active ingredient in 1 g of dried plant,
For a certain amount of the dried plant of known titer, the dried plant was evenly sprinkled with the amount of the flow extract of which the titer and the amount of the dry residue were measured in advance, and the SOD was always dried at 110 to 150 ° C. Products with constant activity can be prepared. The method for preparing healthy tea, in which this flow extract is once produced and then sprinkled on a dried plant to dry, shows an example thereof, and does not limit the method for preparing healthy tea of the present invention. It can be diluted with water and used in the same manner.

Since the health tea of the present invention is a food and a favorite beverage, it has a good flavor and does not get tired even if it is continuously used, and it can be enjoyed regardless of sex or age. In addition, it is preferable that it has the original effect of health tea, and that this effect does not vary from lot to lot, and the components that exert that effect can be objectively measured. In particular, the product of the present invention is a health tea that is particularly expected to have anti-allergic properties, and is a beverage whose main purpose is to improve the constitution of atopic infants. Therefore, it is necessary to prepare a flavor that is preferred by infants as much as possible. for that reason,
Finally, roasted soybean, which is preferred by Japanese as a flavor improving agent, and roasted pearl barley, which are more preferable for skin, are added in an amount of 20 to 5
By adding 0%, extremely high palatability can be obtained. On the other hand, even a plant with a fairly high titer and SOD-like activity is extracted, extracted and concentrated to be adsorbed or sorbed on the plant to be tea, or the active ingredient itself is added. Must guarantee its effectiveness.

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EXAMPLES The details of the present invention will be described in more detail based on the following examples.

(Regarding the potency of the healthy tea of the present invention) In order to make the actual condition of the SOD-like action in the healthy tea of the present invention objective, the inventors of the present invention first conducted rooibos tea [Aspalathus cedarbergensis (Aspalathus). cedarbergensis or Aspalathus linealis dry leaves stem) SOD-like titers were determined. The results are shown in Table 1.
Show as. As a test method, a method modified from T. Hatano et al. [Chem. Pharm. Bull. Vol. 37, (8) 2016-2021 (1989)] was used. This method uses 1 g of each sample
The extract was placed in 1.0 liter of water at 00 ℃ and heated in a boiling water bath for 1 hour.
Hydratyl (DPPH) radical 0.05 μmol, ie 19.
The titer for erasing 716 μg was defined as 1 unit.

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[Table 1]

(Regarding the Potency of the Healthy Tea Material of the Present Invention) Next, Tables 2 and 3 show the results of the same measurement of the material of the healthy tea of the present invention.

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[Table 2]

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[Table 3]

From the results shown above, it is clear that the plant having a strong radical scavenging action contains tannin or flavone. As a result of measuring the pure components by the same method, the titer per g was 450,000 units of rutin, 900,000 units of quercetin, and 562,500 units of quintuple tannic acid. Therefore, these pure components can be added to the health tea of the present invention as needed.

As shown in Tables 2 and 3, the potency of mugwort and oyster leaves is generally high, but the difference from the low titers is 1
There are 0 times. This is a measurement value of Ashitaba leaf, Tsuwabuki leaf, chestnut leaf, and Perilla leaf, which only one example is shown in both tables due to slight differences in production area, collection time, and variety, which were obtained by chance only in the market. , Does not represent the average titer of these plants. Souka's titer is extremely high, but it is thought that this is largely due to the contribution of rutin and kesertin. However, Sophora is a medicine and cannot be used as a food drink.

Further, as shown in the examples of wheat germ, schimko, barley, oyster leaf, sweet tea, etc. in the table, dried plants are added in an amount of 150 to 16
Roasting at 0 ° C increases the titer by 1.5 to several times or more.
This is probably because tannins and flavones in the plant cause the elimination of sugars and partial decomposition by heating to produce more active compounds.

Therefore, when preparing the product of the present invention,
It incorporates a process of evenly sprinkling an aqueous stream extract on dried plants, which are the main components, and drying at 110-150 ° C with stirring. Generally, it is contraindicated to handle both medicines and foods at high temperature, but for the health tea of the present invention, an appropriate high temperature treatment operation rather works effectively. Example 1 Oyster leaf (potency 18,000 units / g) 100 g was added with mugwort leaf extract (potency 10,000 units / ml) 200 ml and dried at about 130-140 ° C. until the water content became about 4%. . To this, 2.5 g of perilla leaves and 75 g of roasted coix seeds were added and mixed evenly to obtain the health tea of the present invention (yield 180 g).

[0027] The potency of 1 g of health tea of this example is 19,000 units, which is obviously higher than that of standard rooibos tea.
As with rooibos tea, if you infuse 3 to 3.5 g per day with 1.8 to 2 liters of boiling water and drink it as tea, you can expect the same effect based on SOD-like activity as rooibos tea. The flavor of the product of the present invention had a slight perilla scent, but was almost completely the same as that of ordinary barley tea, and was favorable to children. (Example 2) Oyster leaf (potency 10,000 unit / g) 100 g, mugwort leaf flow extract (potency 10,000 unit / ml) 300 ml and rutin 2 g were added to obtain a water content of about 4% at about 130 to 150 ° C. To dry. To this, 200 g of roasted pearl barley was added and mixed uniformly to obtain the health tea of the present invention (yield 305 g).

The potency of 1 g of health tea of this example is 15,200 units, which is slightly higher than that of standard rooibos tea. Since 2/3 of this product is roasted pearl barley, the flavor when drinking is completely the same as that of barley tea itself, has extremely high palatability, and is expected to have an effect based on SOD-like activity similar to rooibos tea. it can.

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INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY As described above, the health tea of the present invention replaces rooibos tea, which is unstable in the supply of raw materials, and can now be stably and easily supplied at any time in Japan. In addition, it has SOD-like activity equivalent to rooibos tea in the range of the amount used as normal tea, and by regular use it is effective not only against allergic diseases, especially atopic eczema and asthma but also enhances immunity. . Furthermore, it was possible to provide healthy tea with a very good taste and color tone, which was easy to drink and which had an extremely high taste.

Front page continued (72) Inventor Tomoko Okuda 1-2-17-102 Ueno-dori, Nada-ku, Kobe-shi, Hyogo (72) Hiroko Kawakatsu 3-1-6-409, Kohama Nishi, Suminoe-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A tannin-containing plant or flavonoid-containing plant which is normally drunk or brewed to be drunk into one or more kinds of dried plants that are normally drunk as tea. A health tea characterized by containing one kind or two or more kinds of dried plants or extracts thereof. 2. The health tea according to claim 1, wherein the dried plant is roasted. 3. The health tea according to claim 1, wherein the tannin-containing plant or flavonoid-containing plant has an action of scavenging active oxygen or free radicals. 4. A tannin-containing plant or flavonoid containing tannin that is normally drunk or infused by infusion or brewing to one or more types of dried plants that are normally drunk as tea. A healthy tea comprising one or more kinds of dried plant products or extracts thereof, and one or more kinds of adlay, barley or naked camphor.