JPS6168425A - Healthy food of eye - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain a food good for the health of eye and having extremely high safety, by using the edible plant such as dried powder of the whole grass of carrot including the leaf and/or the extract of said edible plant as main components. CONSTITUTION:The objective food good for the health of eye can be prepared by using (A) the dried powder of the whole grass or carrot including the leaf and/or the extract of the powder and (B) dried powder of onion and/or its extract, as essential components. The onion oil, i.e. propyl allyl disulfide and allyl sulfide is effective to promote the activation of vitamin B1, metabolize the carbohydrate safely, and accordingly, prevent the accumulation of the fatigue-inducing substance such as lactic acid to the region near a cell, especially near the neurocyte. Furthermore, the onion oil is effective to synergistically promoting the activity of the antioxidant substance existing mainly in the leaf of carrot to suppress the formation of a peroxide in the body. Consequently, the formation of the lipid peroxide around the eye can be suppressed more effectively.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention (Field of Industrial Application) This invention relates to eye-healthy foods, and more specifically, the present invention relates to eye-healthy foods, which are extremely safe and eye-healthy foods that contain ordinary edible plants and/or their extracts as main ingredients. The goal is to provide high-quality food.

(Conventional technology and its disadvantages) In recent years, as work has become more sophisticated and complicated, workers' eyes are becoming more and more tired, and OA equipment (office automation
There are many cases of eye and eye fatigue or diseases caused by long-term use of silane.

Furthermore, many schoolchildren and students develop pseudomyopia due to decreased visual acuity due to eye fatigue.

However, these symptoms, other than the above-mentioned pseudomyopia, cannot be said to be diseases, and many people do not usually receive treatment at hospitals, etc. (many people self-medicate with over-the-counter medicines (eye drops), etc.), and they often become chronic.

Until now, there have been no suitable oral medicines or oral foods for such minor but chronic eye diseases that do not require treatment at regular hospitals, and there is a lack of oral medicine and food for people with these symptoms. The inventors have been engaged in research on natural products and Chinese herbal medicines for many years, and in the process discovered that the extract of the edible plant Daucus carota L. has antioxidant properties. , has already been revealed.

This research was further deepened and the engine (Daucus c
In addition to the antioxidant ability contained in the leaf extract of Arota L., we discovered that adding ingredients discovered in parallel research to this research would result in an excellent eye-healthy food, which led us to this invention. did.

The ingredient is powdered onion (Allium cepa), whose bulbs have traditionally been widely eaten as a vegetable. Regarding recovery from fatigue and optic nerve fatigue, what if there is a so-called decrease in energy? This inventor has discovered that it has a revolutionary effect.

(Solution Means) That is, the present invention provides an engine (Daucus carot).
aL.

) dry powder of the whole plant including the leaf part and/or its extract and dry powder of onion (Allium cepa ) and/or its extract.
or an extract thereof as an essential ingredient.

(Example) In this invention, an engine (Daucus carot)
aL.

) is a biennial plant of the Umbelliferae family that is usually eaten, and its roots are usually eaten.

In this invention, the engine (Daucus c
The whole plant including the leaves of L. arota L. is used.

Engines like this (Daucus carota L,
) can be used as an essential component of the eye-healthy food used in the present invention by powdering the whole plant including the leaves, or by obtaining an extract or extract powder by the extraction method described below.

Note that the extraction method is not limited to the following example.

First, the whole plant, including the leaves, is dried and crushed.

This pulverized product can also be used as '+d ridge 4 VO in this invention.

Alternatively, this pulverized product is first extracted with a lower aliphatic alcohol such as methanol or water while heating under reflux. The extraction liquid, such as water, methanol, or ethanol, is usually used in an amount of 10 to 20 times the amount of the drying portion.

The heating temperature is about 60° to 90°, and the mixture is heated under reflux for about 30 to 80 minutes.

Thereafter, it is filtered and the filtrate is concentrated under reduced pressure or normal pressure so that the extract content is about 30χ.

This concentrate is dried under reduced pressure to obtain a dry product, or the extract is freeze-dried or even spray-dried to obtain a dry product. The resulting dry powder is a pale green powder. Although this dried product has low purity, it can be used as it is as a food for healthy eyes.

Next, this dried product was dissolved in water and filtered to remove the acid solution.
Separation and purification with hexane-water, further water in the water eluate layer was distilled off under reduced pressure to obtain a dry powder, this dried product was dissolved in water, further separation and purification with n-butanol-water, and further drying under reduced pressure. When this dry powder is dissolved in methanol and separated by column chromatography, a white powder is obtained.

This white powder is thought to have the most effective antioxidant effect, and it is also estimated that this component is present in the greatest amount in leaf cabbage.

However, unfortunately, the structure of this powder has not yet been analyzed, and this will be a future research topic for this inventor.

Onion (Allium cepa) used in this invention
) are conventionally known plants of the Liliaceae family, such as Kaizuka Wase, Aichi Ki Wase, Imai Ki Wase, Awaji Kotaka, Sapporo Ki, Yamaguchi Hikaru, Kokai, and the like.

In this invention, these onions (Alliumc
A dry powder, preferably a freeze-dried pulverized product of ``epa'', or an extract or an extract powder made by extracting the whole plant including engine leaves as described above can be suitably used in the present invention.

When onion (Allium cepa) is used in the form of powder in this invention, it is preferable to use a freeze-dried pulverized product.
This is because it is necessary in the present invention to powder S without evaporating it.

In the eye-healthy food according to the present invention, the inventor claims that the onion oil part of onion (Alltum cepa), propyl allyl disulfide C3H507, and allyl sulfide (C3H
5) Go is a vitamin B that acts as a coenzyme for carbohydrate metabolism.
1, completely metabolizes carbohydrates, and prevents fatigue substances such as lactic acid from being deposited near cells, especially nerve cells.
The onion's action synergistically supplements the effect of the antioxidant substances contained mainly in the leaves of Carota L., which suppress the production of peroxide substances in the body, and suppresses peroxide formation, especially around the eyes. Since it is believed that lipids impair the health of the eye area, it is thought that the above ingredients will more effectively suppress the production of lipid peroxide around the eye area, resulting in a healthy eye effect. .

With this invention, the engine (Daucus carota L
, powder or extract containing the leaves of onion (Alliu
mcepa) powder or the extract and other mixtures may be blended in a weight ratio of about 100:50 to 120.

Further, in this invention, an engine (Daucus c
arota L,) leaves and onion (Allium c.
epa) Other formulation ingredients may be mixed to increase the effectiveness of the powder.

This formulation includes kiss extract, loquat extract, and chrysanthemum powder.

In order to make the eye-healthy food according to the present invention by mixing such ingredients, the final form of the suitable food can be any form such as a powder, a staple food, a confectionery (kutsky), or a soft drink. , and the amount of ingestion is 500 mg to 10 mg for adults at a time as the total amount of engine leaf powder and onion powder.
It is desirable that the amount be in the range of 000 mg.

The upper limit is based on safety and urine odor, and Log is the upper limit.

(Effect) An engine like this (Daucus carota L,
) powder and extract of the whole plant including the leaves of onion (Al
The eye-healthy food according to the present invention, which contains a mixture with powder (Liumcepa) as an essential ingredient, has been developed to improve the eyes and eye area of workers due to the increasing sophistication and complexity of work in recent years, or due to long-term use of 0Ail equipment (office automation). Eliminates ocular diseases that can be called semi-diseases that are not normally treated at hospitals, such as fatigue or diseases in school children or students, or pseudomyopia due to decreased visual acuity due to tired eyes. It has the effect of being a food for internal use, and it also has the effect of being an extremely safe eye-healthy food.

Next, Examples and Test Examples will be described to further clarify the effects of the present invention.

EXAMPLE 2 kg of commercially available dried Enjin leaf was prepared, the dried product was pulverized, and the pulverized product was heated and extracted at 80° C. while refluxing for 60 minutes using 10 liters of water.

. This extraction was repeated three times.

Thereafter, the mixture was filtered, the filtrate was concentrated to 1/10, and the extract was spray-dried.

760 g of green powder was obtained.

Freeze-dry 2 kg of commercially available onion bulbs to make powder 1.
7Kg was obtained.

Using these powders, powders were prepared according to the following formulation and used for testing.

Onion drying bed 450mg Engine extract 50mg Carp liver extract 25ff1g Chrysanthemum powder 150mg Loquat extract 300mg Fructose 225mg Cornstarch 800mg 2 g of a powder having the above composition was obtained.

Test Example 1 The powder obtained in Example was given to a total of 20 male and female word processor and office computer operators who operated continuously for 5 hours or more a day, between the ages of 25 and 35, three times a day after meals.

After consuming the food for 3 weeks, a questionnaire was used to confirm whether eye fatigue had changed compared to before the consumption.

The results are shown in Table 1 below.

It showed an effectiveness rate of about 60χ.

Test Example 2 One child and 15 students between the ages of 10 and 17 were given the powder prepared in Example three times a day after meals.

These children and students have had visual acuity of 1.2 to 1.2 within the past year.
This is so-called pseudomyopia, which is a sudden decrease from 5 to 0.8 or less.

The results after two months are summarized in Table 2.

In addition to this eye-healthy food, training for visual acuity recovery was also conducted at the same time.

10.1 or more 11 Times' 7 1 original state 11 3 times The results showed an effectiveness rate of about 67χ.

As is clear from the above results, it can be seen that the eye-healthy food according to the present invention has excellent effects.

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) Engine (Daucus carota L.)
An eye-healthy food comprising, as essential ingredients, a dried powder of whole plant including the leaves of Allium cepa and/or an extract thereof, and a dried powder of onion (Allium cepa) and/or an extract thereof.