JPS60114153A - Lipid-metabolizing food - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain a lipid-metabolizing food having excellent effect to suppress the obesity and suppress the deposition of fat, by using the extract of tea leaves as an essential component. CONSTITUTION:Tea leaves such as green tea, oolong tea, black tea, etc., or dried leaves or stalks, etc. of Tea shinensis, or its powder, is extracted with a mixture of acetone and water, and the supernatant liquid is distilled under reduced pressure to remove acetone. The residue is extracted with chloroform, ether, water, etc., and the obtained extract is used as an essential component of the objective additive. The additive is added to an arbitrary food in an amount to administer about 3-15g of the extract daily, in terms of dried leaf.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a lipid metabolic food, and more specifically, an object of the present invention is to provide a lipid metabolic food containing an extract extracted from tea confectionery (Tea 5 hinensis) as an essential component.

Tea leaves (Tea 5 hinensis) have long been described in Chinese drug texts, and were brought to Japan by the Zen sect monk Eisai in the Kamakura period, where they are widely cultivated and popularized.

The typical black tea used in various parts of Europe was brought to Japan via China and India in the early 19th century.

In this way, there are three types of tea, represented by green tea (Japan), oolong tea (China), and black tea (Europe).The characteristics of these three types of tea are the manufacturing method and processing method.Green tea is dried tea, and oolong tea is semi-fermented tea. Tea and black tea are fermented teas.

The inventors discovered that tea leaves (Tea 5hinensis)
After many years of research into the ingredients contained in tea leaves (Tea
This invention was achieved by discovering that a specific extract based on a specific extraction method of this tea leaf (Tea 5 hinensis) has a specific lipid a6J effect, which is completely different from the effect of tea leaves (Tea 5 hinensis).

Tea leaves that can be suitably used in this invention (Tea 5hine)
Non-fermented tea (green tea), semi-fermented tea (oolong tea, etc.), fermented tea (black tea), dried leaves, stems, etc. of the tea plant (Tea 5 hinensis), or dried powder. can be suitably used.

Tea leaves used in this invention (Tea 5hinensis)
) To obtain the extract, in each part of the various teas,
First, each of them is extracted with an acetone-water mixture, the acetone is distilled off from the supernatant under reduced pressure, and the extracted components are extracted with chloroform, ether, acetic acid ethyl ester, etc., and each of these extracted components is concentrated under reduced pressure. You can get each extract.

In the case of unfermented tea (green tea), extracts that can be particularly effectively used in this invention include (11 chloroform soluble extract, (2) ether soluble extract, (3) water soluble extract, Semi-fermented tea (oolong tea, etc.) is fermented with (1) chloroform soluble extract, (2) ether soluble extract, (31 vinegar M ethyl ester soluble extract, (4) water soluble extract). As for tea (black tea), (11) chloroform soluble extract, (2) ether soluble extract, (3) ethyl acetate soluble extract, and (4) water soluble extract can be suitably used.

Although this invention is not necessarily limited to these extracts, the reason for specifically exemplifying these specific extracts is that, based on the experimental knowledge of the present inventors, each of these exemplified extracts has various effects on lipid metabolism. This is because it is clear that each has a specific effect on function. According to the inventors' experimental knowledge based on animal experiments,
It has been found that each extract has its own unique effects listed below, and the respective extracts may be combined as necessary.

(1) Non-fermented tea loroform-soluble extract has the function of lowering neutral fats in the liver, (2) Non-fermented tea ether-soluble extract and non-fermented tea water-soluble extract have the function of lowering free fatty acids in serum. , lipid peroxide and G,
It has the ability to suppress the rise of P, T, (glutamate-pyrupine transferase) and the accumulation of neutral fat in the liver.

(4 ) Fermented cow milk tea ether soluble extract has the ability to suppress the increase in arteriosclerosis index and the accumulation of lipid peroxide in the liver. (5) Fermented cow milk tea acetate ethyl ester soluble extract has the ability to suppress the increase in arteriosclerosis index and the accumulation of lipid peroxide in the liver. (6) Semi-fermented tea water soluble extract has the ability to suppress the rise of free fatty acids in the serum and neutral fats, as well as the ability to suppress the accumulation of total cholesterol and lipid peroxide in the liver. It has the ability to suppress lipid peroxide accumulation.

(71 [I Mu tea chryloform-soluble extract has the function of suppressing the rise of neutral fat, lipid peroxide, GOT (glutamic acid-oxalacetic acid transferase), and free fatty acids in serum, (8) Fermented tea ether The soluble part extract has the function of suppressing the rise of pre-M fatty acids and lipid peroxides in the blood, and the function of suppressing the accumulation of total cholesterol in the liver.

(9) Fermented tea acetate ethyl ester soluble part extract has the function of suppressing the rise of lipid peroxide in the serum and the function of preventing the accumulation of neutral fat in the liver. It also has the function of suppressing the rise of neutral fats and lipid peroxides, and the function of suppressing the accumulation of neutral fats in the liver.

Based on the specific effects of each component obtained through this animal experiment, the amount and combination of ingredients to be added to the food of the invention may be determined based on the desired effect.

The lipid metabolic food according to the present invention is the tea confectionery (T) described in detail above.
ea 5 hinensis) All or any combination of each specific extracted component may be added and blended to produce a food.

The final food form adopted in this invention may be any food form such as a staple food, side dish, sweets, or soft drink. It is sufficient to mix the amount to about 3 to 15 g (in terms of powder).

By showing examples and test examples of this invention below,
This invention will be made clearer.

Example 140 g of dry powder of green tea as non-fermented tea, oolong tea as semi-fermented tea, and black tea as fermented tea was used and homogenized with acetone-water (1:1) (4 liters).
After removing acetone from this supernatant liquid under reduced pressure, the aqueous layer was sequentially extracted with chloroborum, ether, and acetic acid ethyl ester, and each extraction container was concentrated under reduced pressure to obtain each specific extracted extract.

These specific extracts are listed as follows: (11) Non-fermented tea chloroform-soluble extract, (2) Non-fermented tea ether-soluble extract, (3) Non-fermented tea water-soluble extract, (4)
Cattle and dairy fermented tea loroform soluble part extract, (5) Cattle and dairy fermented tea ether soluble part extract, (6) Cattle and dairy fermented tea acetate ethyl ester soluble part extract, (7) Cattle and dairy fermented tea water soluble part extract, (8)
) fermented tea loroform soluble part extract, (9) fermented tea ether soluble part extract, (a) fermented tea acetate ethyl ester soluble part extract, (11) m fermented tea water soluble part extract.

The components of these specific extracts were catechin, epicatechin, catechin gallate, epigallocatechin, epigallocatechin gallate, and the like.

A soft drink according to the present invention was prepared by blending each of the specific extracted extracts into a soft drink having the following composition.

Composition Sweetener (reducing sugar) 102g Glucose 34g Tartaric acid 75g Citric acid 2.7g Apple juice 65g Flavor 1.1g Water Appropriate amount Extract 1500mg Total 1000cc Of this, the extract portion was used in combination with the above device as appropriate to increase liver function.

Test example (1) 43 year old male. He weighs 85 kg and is 165 cm tall. He gets tired easily, catches cold easily, and feels weak.

After drinking 180 cc of the soft drink obtained in the example three times a day for three months, fatigue recovered quickly and hangover symptoms disappeared.

Also, one night's sleep will definitely help you recover from fatigue and reduce your weight to 80.
Kg.

Thereafter, after continuing to drink the soft drink obtained in the example for 6 months, the weight decreased to 75 kg.

Test example (2) 45 year old female. Weight: 66.0 kg, height: 153 cm.

Test Example (Same as 11 - Drinking 180 cc of the soft drink obtained in Example 3 times a day for 3 months, body weight 61 kg)
decreased to

In addition, the total cholesterol in serum is 2413 to 200.
5 mg, and neutral fat decreased from 122.0 to 82.0 mg.

As is clear from the above results, the lipid-metabolizing food according to the present invention is found to have excellent obesity-suppressing and lipid-suppressing effects.

Claims (1)

[Claims] (11 A lipid metabolic food containing an extract extracted from tea leaves (Tea 5 hinensis) as an essential component.