JPH07194338A - Food product to be orally ingested - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain food products which contains calcium carbonate from fossil organisms mainly composed of calcium, thus the product shows good digestive absorption and high mixing stability with other materials and stability with the lapse of time. CONSTITUTION:The food product is mainly composed of calcium carbonate obtained from fossil organisms mainly composed of calcium such as fossil shells, fossil corals, fossil foraminifers or fossil animal bones and is used in processed food products, beverage, food additives and drugs. The calcium carbonate is used in the form of a crushed powder or an extract from the fossil.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to orally ingested foods, beverages, food additives, pharmaceuticals and the like, which are reinforced with highly absorbable calcium.

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2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, various components have been ingested by the human body in orally ingested products such as foods, beverages, food additives and pharmaceuticals.
Among these ingredients, calcium intake has recently become a problem, and this enhancement has been called for. Materials commonly used for ingesting calcium include calcium phosphate, calcium carbonate, calcium lactate, and calcium gluconate. These are in the form of powders thereof as calcium-reinforced foods, or various kinds of these, foods,
Used in beverages, food additives, and pharmaceuticals.
However, with these calcium, there is a problem in the absorption rate to the human body and animals after ingestion, and it is desired to supply a more effective calcium agent and to introduce various orally ingested products coexisting with these calcium agents. ing.

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In the present invention, in such an orally ingested product to be ingested by the human body, animals, etc.,
It is desirable to develop an ingestible product that has a good absorption rate, and is stable even with respect to mixing stability with various materials and aging, and in the present invention, for this reason, foods, beverages, food additives, pharmaceuticals, etc. In the oral ingestion product, the present invention uses calcium carbonate obtained from a biogenic fossil containing calcium as a main component.

Here, as the calcium carbonate obtained from fossil, powder produced by crushing fossil or a dissolved component from fossil is used. For fossil powder, after collecting the fossil raw material, wash it and sterilize it, for example, at about 200 to 300 ° C (this is especially desirable for shell fossils) or, depending on the material, heat sterilize at a higher temperature, It is a fossil powder obtained by drying and coarsely crushing the dried fossil material, further pulverizing it, and classifying it if necessary.

It is desired that the fossil powder used for orally ingested products should be free from the feeling of roughness in the mouth, and the particle size should be at least 200 mesh or more, preferably 300 mesh or more. Of course, in this powder particle size, it is desirable to make it finer, but it is enough if it does not give a feeling of strangeness in the mouth, and when it is mixed with other materials, the powder is compared in the mouth. In a state with little physical discomfort, for example, 10
Between 0 and 200 mesh, or 10
Those having a mesh size of 0 mesh or less may be appropriately adopted.

The dissolved component from fossil is a dissolved component obtained by eluting fossil with water or other solvent at room temperature or under heating. The fossil used at this time may be the fossil raw material as it is, but it may also be a coarsely crushed fossil raw material or a fossil powder as described above, which is used as a basic raw material and dissolved from this. As a matter of course, as the solvent, water is cheap in cost and is easy to use in terms of safety, but there is no obstacle to using other volatile solvents and the like.

As the biogenic fossil containing calcium as a main component, one or more kinds selected from shell fossils, coral fossils, and fossils of foraminiferal fossil bones are used. . Bivalve fossils are fossils of bivalves and other shellfish that have existed in the soil for many years under the influence of geothermal heat, pressure and water. The raw materials for coral fossils and foraminiferal fossils are the same as fossil shells.

Among these fossils, fossil shells are preferred as the calcium carbonate component used in the orally ingested product of the present invention. In addition, among these fossils, the shore snail (Chlamys Islandica Erythrocomat) found in southern Hokkaido
a) It is preferable to use fossils. This mosquito fossil is mainly a bivalve with scales on the surface of the shell, and is mostly white and can be found north of Hokkaido, Kuril Island and Karafu, and has low fossility and advanced weathering. This is preferable to other fossils in terms of solubility in water, stability of calcium carbonate component in dissolved water, and the like. The solubility of Kamionishi fossils in water was several times higher than that of other fossils.

The amount of the dissolved component from fossil powder or fossil as calcium carbonate used in the orally ingested product in the present invention is selected and used according to its intended purpose, but if too much is used, it is an inorganic substance. Therefore, since there is a feeling of roughness and discomfort in the mouth, the amount of use may be such that such feeling of roughness or discomfort is not felt. Generally, a material having a weight ratio of about several%, preferably about 1 to 2%, may be added to a base material such as foods, beverages and food additives.
However, even if it is added more than this, there is no place where it is inhibited as calcium.

Utilization of calcium carbonate obtained from biogenic fossils containing calcium as a main component is used for orally ingested products. In the present invention, as the orally ingested product, various objects to be ingested through the mouth are mentioned.
The orally ingested product is one selected from foods, beverages, food additives, pharmaceuticals and the like.

Naturally, various foods are considered as foods, and it is generally preferable to use them in processed foods in terms of their usage. However, agricultural products and marine products as primary products absorb the calcium carbonate, Of course, it is also good to eat cabbage, Chinese cabbage, carrots, seafood, etc. as an orally ingested product. In the case of processed foods, powders of calcium carbonate obtained from biogenic fossils and dissolved components thereof may be added and mixed in the processing step. Since these powders and dissolved components are highly stable, it is not necessary to use various stabilizers. However, if this food is a viscous liquid, the state can be maintained by mixing and dispersing in this, but when targeting liquid foods with low fluidity, carbon dioxide is used in the liquid as the base material. Calcium may settle at the bottom of the container and separate. In this case, it is desired to mix and disperse it by vibrating it when it is eaten.

In a beverage, the calcium carbonate may be mixed and dispersed in the solution base material. However, as in the case of the food, when the mixing amount is large, since the powder as the calcium carbonate, especially the powder, may settle at the bottom of the container when it is allowed to stand, a dispersant is used if necessary, or a beverage. It is desirable to increase the viscosity of the solution. In addition, since the fossil powder as calcium carbonate is white, when mixed with a beverage, the whole exhibits white,
If this is a problem, it may be possible to color the beverage in advance or on its own. Incidentally, although it is natural that these calcium carbonates may be dispersed in the liquid for beverage, for example, in mandarin orange juice, grapefruit juice, grape juice, etc., since grains of these raw materials are used in the juice, It is naturally possible to support calcium carbonate on the raw material grains.

Next, in food additives, calcium carbonate obtained from this biogenic fossil in the form of fossil powder is used.
Further, it can be used in a solution state as a dissolved component. Since calcium carbonate is originally tasteless and odorless, it can be used as a food additive by using the fine powder and the dissolved component itself. However, it is possible to co-exist with an acidulant, a sweetener, and other materials.
For example, by mixing this fossil powder as calcium carbonate in Ochazuke seaweed and other furikake materials,
A furiake material having a high calcium pigment is obtained.

Finally, in a pharmaceutical product, it is only necessary to coexist a calcium carbonate fine powder obtained from a biogenic fossil or a dissolved component in a pharmaceutical base material as a raw material for oral intake.

Then, calcium carbonate obtained from biogenic fossils containing calcium as the main component is used in the form of fossil powder or a dissolved component from fossil in a liquid state to obtain foods, beverages and foods. By ingesting an additive or a mixture of the raw materials of a pharmaceutical product as an ingested substance into the human body or an animal orally, the calcium component in the calcium carbonate obtained from the fossil can be effectively ingested.

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As described above, since the orally ingested product according to the present invention uses calcium carbonate obtained from biogenic fossil containing calcium as a main component, these are used as foods, beverages, food additives, and pharmaceuticals. It can be contained in the ingested product in a state of being stable and having good mixing and dispersibility with these base materials simply by coexisting with them, etc., and easily ingesting them makes it possible to supply calcium to humans and animals. . In addition, by using this calcium component as a food, a beverage, or a food additive, it is possible to exert anti-corrosion and anti-oxidation properties on these base materials.

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. An ingestible product using calcium carbonate obtained from a biogenic fossil containing calcium as a main component. 2. A biogenic fossil containing calcium as a main component, which is one or more selected from shell fossils, coral fossils, foraminiferal fossils, and animal bone fossils. The orally ingested product according to item 2. 3. The orally ingested product according to claim 2, which is prepared by using fossil Kaminishi as a fossil shell. 4. The orally ingested product according to claim 1, wherein the calcium carbonate obtained from fossil originating from a component containing calcium as a main component is fossil powder or a dissolved component from fossil. 5. The orally ingested product according to claim 1, which is one kind selected from foods, beverages, food additives and pharmaceuticals as the orally ingested product.