JPH0870821A - Capsule shaped food and its production - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To obtain a capsule shaped food effective for preventing various kinds of inflammations and aging phenomena of tissue by utilizing a polysaccharide substance extracted from cartilage of a shark. CONSTITUTION: A mixture containing at least one of polysaccharide substances extracted from a ground material of cartilage of a shark or the cartilage of a shark and at least one of chitin and chitosan is sealed in gelatin capsules having a continuous film soluble in the intestine on the surface. Since the capsules reach the intestine without receiving deactivating action with gastric juice, physiological activities are effectively enhanced by mutually action of the blended components.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a capsule-type food used as a dietary supplement or health food and a method for producing the same.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In order for humans to be active and healthy every day, it is necessary to ingest balanced nutrition as food, but the tastes of ordinary people such as ordinary meals and confectionery are taken daily. There is a problem that the balance is easily lost only with foods and the like, and various nutritional supplements and health foods are provided in order to achieve nutritional balance. On the other hand, it is said that chondroitin sulfate has an effect of reducing symptoms such as rheumatism and arthritis, and an effect of preventing arteriosclerosis, and it is said that shark cartilage also has the same effect. The effects of using these as food have not yet been clarified.

[0003]

The present inventor has conducted various studies on the use of chondroitin sulfate, collagen, shark cartilage and the like as foods, and as a result, protected against digestive juices rather than simply ingested as it is. It was found that ingestion in the given form exhibits more effective physiological activity, and the present invention has been completed. That is, an object of the present invention is to provide a capsule-shaped food that is effective in preventing various inflammations and aging phenomena of tissues by utilizing shark cartilage and a polysaccharide substance extracted from shark cartilage.

[0004]

The above object of the present invention is to:
A mixture containing at least one of crushed shark cartilage or a polysaccharide substance extracted from shark cartilage and at least one of chitin or chitosan is encapsulated in a gelatin capsule having an enteric-soluble continuous film on its surface. This can be achieved by the characteristic capsule-shaped food product.

The polysaccharide substance extracted from shark cartilage which is a component of the food of the present invention is, for example, shredded shark cartilage, treated with a proteolytic enzyme in a solvent such as water, extracted, adsorbed or filtered. It is possible to use a product which has been purified by the method described above and added with a drying aid such as dextrin to be powdered by a method such as spray drying. Further, at least one of the polysaccharide substance and chitin or chitosan extracted from such shark cartilage may have a degree of purification that is used as a conventional food product or food additive, etc.
It is preferable to use dried powders of these components.

In addition, these components are at least one of crushed shark cartilage or polysaccharide substances extracted from shark cartilage.
~ 99% by weight, at least one of chitin or chitosan 1
˜99% by weight, and other physiologically active compounding agents or physiologically harmless binders can be compounded within the range of 40% by weight or less.

The capsule-type food product of the present invention comprises a hard gelatin containing a mixture containing at least one of the ground shark cartilage or at least one polysaccharide substance extracted from shark cartilage and at least one of chitin or chitosan. It is manufactured by encapsulating it in a capsule and then forming an enteric-soluble continuous film on the surface, which is highly enteric-soluble but does not readily dissolve in digestive juices in a strongly acidic environment such as the stomach. It is formed by a method of applying a liquid in which a molecular material is dissolved in an organic solvent or the like to the surface of the capsule.

As such an enterically soluble polymer material, a solvent-soluble material such as glycoprotein or an aliphatic alcohol derivative of cellulose or hemicellulose is preferably used. Further, when such a film is not a continuous film, the gelatin capsule is likely to be dissolved by gastric juice, which is considered to cause partial inactivation of food ingredients, and there is a tendency that sufficient efficacy is not exhibited.

[0009]

The capsule-type food of the present invention contains the shark cartilage contained therein or the polysaccharide substance extracted from the shark cartilage, because the content of the capsule-shaped food reaches the intestine as it is without dissolution of the capsule by gastric juice when ingested orally. Chitin or chitosan, etc. reach the intestine without being inactivated or destroyed by contact with gastric juice and interact with each other for the first time to exert physiological activity effectively.

[0010]

【Example】

(Example 1) 60% by weight of polysaccharide substance extracted from shark cartilage, and 1: 2 mixture powder 40 of chitin and chitosan
Each 0.2 g of the composition containing the weight percent was encapsulated in a hard gelatin capsule.

Further, the capsule was placed in a rotary bowl, and while stirring with rotation, a liquid prepared by dissolving Twain DP (trade name of Showa Sangyo Co., Ltd.) as an enteric polymer in 83% ethanol was sprayed. The capsule-shaped food of the present invention having an enteric-soluble continuous film on the surface of the capsule was obtained.

Next, 20 volunteers with arthritis symptoms were divided into 2 groups, and one of them contained the capsule-type food of the present invention and the other encapsulated in a capsule having no enteric film. The capsule-shaped foods of No. 1 were compared with each other for the symptom-relieving effect by a method of taking 5 tablets each time twice a day. As a result, with respect to the food of the present invention, the effect was remarkable in 4 people, the effect was in 5 people, and the effect was not in 1 person, while the control food was not in effect, and the effect was 7 people, There were 3 people with no effect.

(Example 2) 70% by weight of a 2: 1 mixture of ground shark cartilage and a polysaccharide substance extracted from shark cartilage,
0.2 g of a composition containing 30% by weight of chitosan powder
Each of them was encapsulated in a hard gelatin capsule, and further, Example 1
In the same manner as above, a capsule-shaped food of the present invention having an enteric-soluble continuous film on the surface of this capsule was obtained.

[0014]

The capsule-type food of the present invention is a shark cartilage crushed product or a composition containing at least one polysaccharide substance extracted from shark cartilage and at least one chitin or chitosan, which is enteric-soluble on the surface. Since it is encapsulated in a gelatin capsule with a continuous film, it reaches the intestine without being inactivated or destroyed by gastric juice after taking, and the polysaccharide substance and chitin or chitosan interact with each other to achieve physiological activity. Is effectively expressed. Therefore, it has the effect of enhancing the physiologically active action on human tissues.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A gelatin capsule having an enteric-soluble continuous film on the surface of a mixture containing crushed shark cartilage or at least one polysaccharide substance extracted from shark cartilage and at least one chitin or chitosan. A capsule-shaped food characterized by being enclosed in. 2. A crushed shark cartilage or a mixture containing at least one polysaccharide substance extracted from shark cartilage and at least one chitin or chitosan is encapsulated in a hard gelatin capsule, and the intestine is then applied to the surface of the capsule. The method for producing a capsule-type food product according to claim 1, wherein an insoluble continuous film is provided.