JPS6324667B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

The present invention is directed to alpha alpha (scientific name: Medicago).
Regarding the manufacturing method of healthy tea made from Alfa Sativa), its extract is ingested into the human body as a beverage similar to green tea, which does not impair the high nutritional content of Alpha Alpha and satisfies the Japanese taste for tea. This made it possible to encourage Research by botanists has pointed out that Alfal-fa, which is generally famous as a grass in other countries, has high nutritional content and is extremely useful compared to other plants. Various studies have been conducted to find out whether it is something that cannot be ingested. In the United States, it is already practiced to dry alpha alpha and make a decoction to drink it, but simply drying alpha alpha does not remove the characteristic odor, and if you drink it regularly in the same way as a decoction. Kaku is definitely not something you can casually drink on a daily basis. In other words, as its name suggests, alpha alpha has been known since ancient times to have medicinal properties (Medicago means used for medicine), but there is no custom of eating it regularly, and therefore humans do not eat it. Currently, there is no established cooking method suitable for this. Therefore, there was no way to directly ingest the high nutritional content of alpha-alpha into the human body other than by eating large amounts of raw alpha-alpha or using it as a kind of decoction in the United States as mentioned above. Therefore, although alpha alpha has been recognized for its high nutritional value, it has not been eaten by humans, and has only been used as pasture, which is ideal for livestock. By the way, the applicant, who has recently succeeded in cultivating alpha alpha in Japan, has been researching ways to directly ingest alpha alpha into the human body, in addition to using alpha alpha as feed for livestock. In other words, the so-called health food boom has recently flourished, and goji tea, pigeon barley tea, etc. are now on the market, and some people seem to drink them regularly. Therefore, the applicant researched ways to regularly drink Alpha Alpha as a tea-like beverage, similar to these health foods. However, there is no effective way to process alpha alpha for food or drink, and even if alpha alpha were to be used as a beverage similar to tea, it would have a unique odor and taste, like the goji tea and pigeon barley tea mentioned above, and would not have the so-called grassy smell. This was one of the reasons why humans could not easily drink it. Therefore, the purpose of the present invention is to process alpha alpha so that it can be easily consumed on a daily basis like green tea or black tea and provide it to the market. Collect, shred, steam-treat, dry at high and low temperatures, then shred again, roast with stirring, and grind if necessary to produce healthy tea. This is the structure of the method. If alpha-alpha is processed in this way and consumed in the same manner as tea, the characteristic odor, especially the grassy smell, can be removed, and a drinkable food that is almost similar to green tea can be obtained. The configuration of the present invention will be explained below based on one embodiment thereof. First of all, cut off the alpha alpha that has grown to a height of 30 to 40 cm from the base. In other words, not only the leaves but also the stems of alfa are used. The second step is to run the cut alpha alpha into a shredder to cut it into pieces about 1 cm in length. This allows for even heating in the next steaming process, and is a preparation for the final processing similar to tea leaves. Third, the shredded material is heated with steam at a temperature of about 120°C for about 5 seconds. This is to sterilize and inhibit the action of xanthophyll, a substance that causes plants to turn brown. Fourth, the steam-treated product is air cooled to return to room temperature. This is to prevent the vitamins it contains from disappearing if the high temperature continues for a long time. Fifth, the material that has been cooled to room temperature is passed through a rough mill and dried at high temperature with dry air at a temperature of 90 to 95°C for about 35 to 40 minutes. This is a pre-process to form dried tea leaves similar to green tea. The coarse kneading machine dries the shredded alpha alpha and at the same time kneads it as if it were kneaded by hand. Sixth, the roughly dried product with about 80% of the moisture removed is further dried in a flat dryer with low-temperature dry air at a temperature of about 37 to 40°C for about 8 hours, and then further shredded in a coarse pulverizer. Dried alpha alpha still has a grassy smell, but it becomes similar to green tea, and
This is shredded to make it even finer. Seventh, the tea leaves that have been converted into tea leaves as described above are further placed in a thick stainless steel heating pot and roasted for about 10 minutes at a temperature of 50°C. Here, by roasting alpha alpha, its grassy smell is removed and it has a scent similar to green tea.
This stage can then be used as the final product, ie tea leaves. However, as long as the dried processed product is brewed and consumed like green tea, 100% of the nutrients in alpha-alpha cannot be utilized, and a large amount of alpha-alpha must be discarded like used tea leaves. Therefore, the above dried processed product was further passed through a coarse crusher, filtered through a 3-mesh mesh, and then passed through an impact crusher.
It is best to make a powder of about 50 meshes and pack it into bags in predetermined amounts so that it can be used like matcha. Incidentally, this powdered alpha alpha can be ingested like a powdered medicine, or it can be mixed with other food and ingested into the human body. In this way, the nutrients contained in Alpha Alpha are approximately 100
% available. In addition, a general component analysis table of Alpha Alpha and test results of the health tea according to the present invention are shown below.

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[Table] According to the present invention described above, alpha alpha, which contains a large amount of various nutrients and vitamins and is the most useful plant, has a unique taste and odor, especially a grassy smell. In order to achieve this, we have made it possible to brew and drink something that would not be suitable for human consumption under normal conditions, for example, as a processed food similar to the green tea that Japanese people drink regularly, and yet it has the same taste and odor as described above. The aroma is almost the same as green tea,
It has a good color and taste, has no odor, especially grassy smell, and is suitable for eating and drinking, making it possible for the human body to effectively ingest alpha alpha extract.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawing is a flowchart showing the process of producing healthy tea according to the present invention.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1 Cut the alpha alpha that was harvested from the root into small pieces, soak it in steam at about 120℃ for about 5 seconds, return it to room temperature, and then dry it by massaging it in heated dry air at 90 to 95℃ for 35 to 40 minutes. A health product made from alpha alpha, which is characterized by drying it in low-temperature dry air at about 37 to 40 degrees Celsius once about 80% of the moisture has been removed, and then shredding it into pieces and roasting it while stirring. Tea production method.