KR20000066837A - Health food capsule containing powder or concentrate of prickly pear extract - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A health food capsule containing pulverized prickly pear or an extract from prickly pear is provided, that has a variety of nutrients and medical effects, is portable, and is excellent in stability. CONSTITUTION: Preparation method of a capsulated health food has the steps of: (i) compressing the prickly pear with heating at 110-125°C for 2-4hours in a high pressure heater to get an undiluted solution of the prickly pear; (ii) adding vitamin C or Oligosaccharide to the undiluted solution and concentrating to get high condensed extract. 0.1-5wt% of powdered leaves of the cactus or a cactus leaves extract can be added to the capsulated health food.

Description

Health food capsule containing powder or concentrate of prickly pear extract}

The present invention relates to a health food capsule containing a palm cactus fruit powder or concentrate. More specifically, the present invention is powdered or highly concentrated and encapsulated palm cactus fruit, anti-cancer activity due to the intake and absorption of the rich medicinal ingredients and medicinal ingredients contained in palm cactus fruit, anti-aging, anti-diabetic, diuretic, The present invention relates to a health food capsule that can be expected to have excellent effects on cholesterol lowering, osteoporosis, arthritis, cough, bronchial asthma, skin care, constipation, and is convenient to carry and have excellent storage stability.

In recent years, with the rapid development of the industry, modern people are increasing the physical and mental stresses that can arise from pollution of the automobile, smoking, dust, or heavy work, overheated entrance examination, and intense competitive social structure. Therefore, health-oriented modern people are interested in the development of natural foods rich in nutritional and medicinal ingredients.

Palm cactus, also known as baeknyeoncho, is composed of 88-95% water as the main ingredient and nutritional and pharmacologically beneficial to the human body, carbohydrates, dietary fiber, vitamins, Ca, Mg, etc. It contains pectin, which lowers cholesterol and fat, and phenol and flavonoids that have anticancer activity. The nutritional and pharmacological effects of palm cactus are well known through folk medicine.

For example, palm cactus contains many ingredients necessary for antipyretic calming, sore throat relief, bronchial asthma, burn treatment, blood purifying, blood removal, diabetes, cholesterol suppression as well as anti-aging and constipation prevention, intestinal activation, anticancer action and diuretic effect. It has been shown to contain (see Chinese Herbal Dictionary, Herbal Medicine, Home Medicine, etc.).

However, it is quite inconvenient to take cactus cactus, powder it, and take it in one-handed prescription or apply it to the affected area. Can make you feel. Especially in the case of cactus fruit, the outer shell is very hard and thick, and the shape surrounding the flesh and seeds has a very dense structure. Attention has been focused on pharmacological research.

For example, Korean Patent No. 173167 (published Feb. 1, 1999) proposes a method for effectively extracting a water-soluble polysaccharide that can be used as a beverage containing medicinal and edible ingredients from cactus leaves. have. According to this patent, however, cactus leaves are prepared by hot water extraction at a high temperature of 100 ° C. and then precipitated with alcohol solvents such as ethanol to produce water-soluble polysaccharides. There is. The cactus leaves contain three kinds of terpene compounds, which are volatile odors, that is, α-, β- or γ-terpenes, etc. Eating these cactus juices as it is can cause discomfort due to disgusting smells. In addition, the fermentation process, such as alcohol precipitation, such as the patent, there is a concern that terpene components that have a beneficial pharmacological effect on the human body is removed or changed into other components. In addition, the patent only suggests a vague possibility that the cactus leaf extract can be used as a beverage to increase the pharmacological effect of the cactus, and there is no mention of specific examples of preparing the beverage or experimental data to prove the effect of the beverage. Not.

In addition, conventionally prescribed in the private cactus dried and finely pulverized powder or the juice of the palm cactus blended with water or mixed with other medicinal plant extracts to drink or apply the powder to the wound site of the palm cactus to absorb the body Due to the efficacy effect can be expected to some extent, there is a risk of deterioration or impurities in response to other components when stored for a long period of time, the color is changed by the change between its own components, thus not only the efficacy effect of the cactus extract is lowered, There was a disadvantage that it is inconvenient to take a mobile.

Accordingly, the present inventors have conducted numerous studies and experiments to develop health foods having nutritional and pharmacological effects among numerous natural plant extracts, and the nutritional and pharmacological benefits of the fruit of palm cactus are more beneficial to the human body than the leaf part. By confirming that the redness is more abundant and stably preserving the palm cactus fruit extract in the microcapsules, it is possible to apply abundant medicinal ingredients and medicinal ingredients contained in the palm cactus fruit to the product in a large and stable manner. We developed a health food capsule that is convenient to carry and has excellent storage stability.

The present invention relates to a health food capsule prepared by powdering or highly concentrated and encapsulated palm cactus fruit.

Prickly Cactus fruit is similar in shape and size to western pears and is named prickly pear, and fruit can be obtained from various kinds of cactus. The surface of the fruit is green to dark purple. The pulp is soft and has a porous structure interspersed with black seeds. Fruit flesh color is greenish pale yellow to dark golden yellow. Also called a cactus pear. It has the same aroma and taste as melons, but has a gentle aroma. Cactus fruit should be picked a little hard and uniform color when pressed by the palm.

The health food capsule according to the present invention includes a powdered capsule which is powdered and encapsulated palm cactus fruit, or a soft capsule which is highly concentrated and encapsulated palm cactus fruit extract.

Palm cactus high concentrate is prepared as follows. Jeju Island, South Korea, harvests cactus fruits that are not contaminated by pesticide free cultivation in a clear environment. When the collected fruits are put into a rotary high speed rotor and rotated, the spines are removed by a brush and a blower, and impurities are removed from the net. No other chemicals such as synthetic detergents or detergents are used here. The washed fruit is put in a high pressure heater and heat-pressed for 2 to 4 hours at a temperature of 110 to 125 ℃ to extract the stock solution. Alcohol solvents such as methanol and ethanol are not used in the extraction process. Vitamin C and oligosaccharides are added to the extracted fruit extract and concentrated 100 times or more to obtain a high concentration of palm cactus fruit.

Containing 0.1 to 0.5% by weight of vitamin C in palm cactus fruit high concentrate can further increase the efficacy effect due to vitamin intake. Vitamin C acts to enhance the antimicrobial activity of various diseases such as cell respiration promotion, antistress function, antioxidant function, fatigue recovery, cold.

In addition, the palm cactus fruit powder is removed by removing the thorns by brush and blowing the collected cactus fruit and put it in a flush high-speed rotor, the impurities escape the net. Do not use any other chemicals, such as cleaners or cleaners. The washed fruit is hot-air dried at a temperature of 40 to 60 ° C., and the dried fruit is finely cut using a slider machine. The cut fruit is lyophilized or hot air dried for at least 10 hours to completely remove moisture and grind to obtain palm cactus fruit powder.

The cactus fruit powder or high concentrate prepared as described above is completely concentrated to 100 to 300 times by removing moisture from the fruit extract, so even in small amounts, it can be expected to maximize the beneficial nutritional and pharmacological effects on the human body.

Since the leaf part of palm cactus contains dietary fiber, vitamins and minerals, which are essential for nutrition of the human body, the powder or high concentrate of palm cactus leaf is prepared by a method similar to palm cactus fruit powder or high concentrate and added to the capsule of the present invention. This can further enhance the nutritional and pharmacological effects of health food. Palm health cactus leaf powder or concentrate in the health food capsule according to the invention may be added 0.1 to 0.5% by weight.

More specifically, the palm cactus fruit powder or high concentrate is used as a core material to make a microcapsule by forming a film of cactus fruit powder extract using a conventional polymer for preparing capsules. As a method for preparing the capsule, a solvent evaporation method, a spray drying method, a fluid bed method, or the like may be used. Looking at the encapsulation process using the fluidized bed, 1,000 parts by weight of palm cactus fruit powder is added to the fluidized bed container, and the capsule is sprayed to the side or bottom of the container while the device is operated to make an appropriate capsule.

Coating materials usable for encapsulation include polyvinylacetate, polymethylacrylate, polymethylmethylacrylate, poly-2-hydroxyethylmethylacrylate, polyvinylacetal, polycaprolactone, ethylcellulose, hydroxypropylmethyl Cellulose or mixtures thereof.

Hereinafter, although this invention is demonstrated based on an experimental example, the technical scope of this invention is not limited to these examples.

Experimental Example 1. Comparison of general composition of fruits and leaves of lyophilized palm cactus

When comparing the general components contained after freeze-dried palm cactus leaf and fruit is shown in Table 1.

(unit: %) division moisture Crude fat Crude protein Ash Crude fiber Availability Fruit 9.30 1.35 4.24 12.12 3.79 69.20 leaf 5.94 1.20 8.52 20.05 6.27 58.02

As shown in Table 1, palm cactus fruit and leaves contain a large amount of fiber, protein and minerals beneficial to the human body. In particular, palm cactus contains 30% of dietary fiber, which is involved in the prevention of constipation and intestinal activation, which is much higher than 1.19-10.35% of cereals, 0.99-7.42% of fresh vegetables, and 0.19-2.19% of fruits. Therefore, even if a small amount of healthy food capsules powdered or highly concentrated and encapsulated palm cactus fruit and leaves, these active ingredients are absorbed in high concentrations in the body, maximizing nutritional effects and preventing and treating various adult diseases. .

Experimental Example 2. Mineral composition of lyophilized palm cactus

Freeze-dried palm cactus leaves and berries are shown in Table 2 below.

(Unit: dry weight, mg%) division Cactus fruit Cactus leaves Ca 2086.9 4391.2 Mg 800.6 1984.8 Na 539.7 985.4 K 2608.7 19321.1 Fe 12.9 11.3 Mn 2.2 1.4 Cu 0.6 0.6 P 99.6 93.0 sum 6151.2 9400.8

As shown in Table 2, palm cactus fruit and leaves contain a large amount of minerals beneficial to the human body. Powder capsules or high-concentrate soft capsules prepared from palm cactus fruit and leaves can be seen that even if ingested in small amounts, these active ingredients can be absorbed at high concentrations in the body to maximize the nutritional enhancement effect and the prevention and treatment of various adult diseases.

Experimental Example 3. Comparison of Phenol and Flavonoid Contents according to Extraction Conditions of Palm Cactus

As a result of extracting cactus fruit and cactus stem with 80% methanol solvent at room temperature for 48 hours, phenol and flavonoid content was detected from cactus as shown in Table 1 below.

Comparison of Phenolic and Flavonoid Contents of Palm Cactus sample yield(%) Phenol Content (ml / g) Flavonoid Content (ml / g) Fruit 80.95% 4.976 1.590 leaf 34.65 1.858 1.290

As shown in Table 3, the cactus fruit extract has a yield of more than two times higher than that of the cactus leaf extract and a content of phenolic substance and flavonoids of 1.5 times or more. Phenolic compounds and flavonoids are known to have anti-aging, anticancer and antimutagenic effects. Palm cactus contains about 5% of phenolic substances and flavonoids, which is higher than other foods, such as 0.17% of rice, 0.19% of barley, 0.21% of shiitake mushrooms, 2.21% of red pepper roots, 1.67% of ginger, and 1.06% of walnuts. Much higher. Therefore, even ingestion of a small amount of palm cactus fruit powder or concentrate capsules, these active ingredients are absorbed to a high concentration in the body, it can be seen that to maximize the anti-aging, anticancer effect, antimutagenic effect.

The health food capsule of the present invention has no risk of side effects on the human body by using pure natural plant extracts without using chemical synthetic materials, is convenient to carry and has excellent storage stability, and is rich in nutrition contained in palm cactus fruit. Anti-cancer action, anti-aging, anti-diabetic, diuretic, cholesterol-lowering, osteoporosis, arthritis, cough, bronchial asthma, skin care, constipation due to the intake and absorption of the ingredients and active ingredients can be expected.

Claims (3)

Palm cactus fruit was placed in a high pressure heater and heat-pressed for 2 to 4 hours at a temperature of 110 to 125 ° C. to extract the stock solution. Vitamin C and oligosaccharides were added to the extracted fruit extract stock, and the palm cactus fruit was highly concentrated. Health food soft capsules containing. The capsule composition according to claim 1, further comprising 0.1 to 5% by weight of powder or high concentrate of palm cactus leaf. A health food capsule containing palm cactus fruit powder prepared by slicing palm cactus fruit finely using a slider machine and then lyophilizing or hot air drying for more than 10 hours.