RU2734078C1 - Tea composition - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: tea industry.SUBSTANCE: tea composition contains initial components at following ratio of components, wt %. In each separate mixture (out of three) components are taken in equal quantity among themselves: St. John's wort herb, horsetail herb, chamomile flowers, raspberry leaves, hawthorn flowers—44–56 %, Viburnum berries, herb of motherwort, inula roots, red ashberry flowers, hazelnut leaves—26–34 % and red clover flowers, linden flowers, kipper's leaves, oregano herb, thyme herb, mint leaves—18–22 %.EFFECT: invention ensures production of a composition with improved food and organoleptic indices.1 cl, 3 tbl

Description

The invention relates to the food industry and concerns the production of herbal teas compositions prepared from dry plant raw materials of biodiversity of nectar pollen plants.

Herbal teas, classified as tea drinks from plant raw materials of biodiversity of nectar pollen plants, are already known as food products / 1 /. However, the composition of such teas is not yet diverse enough. More often, dry herbal preparations are used in the medical industry, for example, as fortifying preparations.

The word "herbal tea" is understood as a drink and dry leaves of plants. Its use is inextricably linked with the national culture and traditions of many peoples. Phytoay is not just a drink among other drinks. For many people, it is a basic necessity. Therefore, it is necessary to strive to ensure that the use of herbal tea brings maximum benefits. Tea drinks contain such important components as tannins, essential oils, alkaloids, amino acids, pigments and vitamins. Previously, it was noticed that herbal tea stimulates the vital activity of the body, enhances working capacity, eliminates fatigue, and the feeling of the tea aroma gives great pleasure. Like many food products, herbal tea has a different ability to affect the human body.

The selected ratios of the components of the herbal tea of the present invention also determine its consumer properties, namely, its taste and aroma, and directly affect its properties. A tea drink is prepared from this composition by simple brewing and infusion for several minutes. The plants considered below, which have certain nutritional and biological properties, but in the complex exhibit special specific properties characteristic only of this drink, were selected as initial products.

As a prototype of a new composition, a phytotea composition / 8 / containing the following components was selected: containing mint leaves, hawthorn flowers, chamomile flowers, St. John's wort, oregano herb, thyme herb, linden flowers, red rowan flowers.

The technical solution of the present invention is to obtain a composition with increased biological value while improving food and organoleptic characteristics.

This decision is carried out by the fact that the composition for the preparation of the tea drink additionally includes motherwort herb, horsetail herb, hazelnut leaves, elecampane roots, raspberry leaves, fireweed leaves, red clover flowers, viburnum fruits with the following ratio of components wt. %: St. John's wort, horsetail grass, chamomile flowers, raspberry leaves, hawthorn flowers - 44-56; viburnum fruits, motherwort herb, elecampane roots, red rowan flowers, hazel leaves - 26-34; red clover flowers, linden flowers, fireweed leaves, oregano herb, thyme herb, mint leaves - 18-22.

Elecampane tall has many beneficial properties. Rhizomes with roots of high elecampane contain essential oil (up to 4%). They smell like violets in their pleasant scent. Also, the rhizomes and roots of the plant contain polysaccharides: inulin (up to 40%), inulenin, pseudoinulin, mucus, organic acids (acetic, benzoic), vitamin E, saponins, gums, resins, a small amount of alkaloids, macro- and microelements. A decoction of elecampane rhizomes and roots has an expectorant effect. Also, the plant exhibits anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, choleretic and diuretic activity. Elecampane has a hemostatic and wound-healing effect. Elecampane drugs reduce the secretory activity of the bronchi and have an expectorant effect. Saponins and essential oils of the plant help to increase the secretion of bronchial mucus and expectoration of phlegm. When using elecampane oil extract, the process of lipid peroxidation decreases and the activity of antioxidant enzymes increases, which leads to a decrease in inflammatory processes, a change in the chemical composition of sputum, respectively, a decrease in its viscosity and an increase in the rate of sputum evacuation. Rhizomes and roots of elecampane have hypoglycemic activity, which is due to inulin. It was found that under the influence of the plant infusion, peristalsis and secretory activity of the intestine decrease, however, bile formation increases and bile secretion into the duodenum noticeably increases. The combination of this action with the anti-inflammatory and antiseptic properties of the plant significantly increases its practical value in the treatment of diseases of the digestive system. When using preparations based on the essential oil of the plant in the treatment of gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer, pain disappears, appetite improves, and body weight increases, especially with reduced nutrition. As a result of treatment, ulcers heal quickly enough or significantly decrease in size. The essential oil of the plant enhances blood circulation in the gastric mucosa, accelerates regeneration processes, and stimulates the production of buffer substances. Elecampane's anti-inflammatory properties are also due to the essential oil of the plant. In addition, elecampane essential oil has a pronounced antiseptic and antihelminthic effect, as well as some fungicidal activity. These beneficial properties of elecampane can be used in the development of drugs for the treatment of mycotic eczema. Phytopreparations elecampane act fungicidal on red and interdigital trichophyton, are less active against Staphylococcus aureus, Shigella, Salmonella, Escherichia, Vibrio cholerae and are inactive against Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Fireweed leaves contain a large amount of tannins (up to 20%), mucus (up to 15%), flavonoids, pectins, alkaloids, ascorbic acid (up to 338 mg%, three times more than in orange fruits), sugar, organic acids, mineral salts (iron 23 mg%, manganese 16 mg%, boron 6 mg%, copper 2.3 mg%, nickel and titanium 1.3 mg% each, molybdenum 0.44 mg%). Due to the content of tannins and mucus, the leaves and roots of fireweed have astringent, wound healing, anti-inflammatory and enveloping properties. Whole fireweed leaves have significantly less anti-inflammatory activity than crushed leaves. This phenomenon is observed in connection with the combined action of tannins and mucus. They also have sedative (sedative), anticonvulsant, analgesic effects. Fireweed preparations are low toxic. In folk medicine, an infusion of fireweed herb is taken for colitis, gastritis, gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer, headache, and insomnia. A decoction of fireweed leaves is recommended for gastritis, colitis, gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer, bleeding, anemia, acute respiratory diseases. Also used for gargling with tonsillitis, washing wounds, ulcers, bedsores. Fresh crushed leaves can be applied to festering, long-lasting wounds, ulcers, bedsores. Steamed flowering grass is used for compresses on painful areas (joints, muscles, bones). Powder from dried leaves is sprinkled on wounds, ulcers and frostbitten areas of the body. Also in folk medicine, narrow-leaved fireweed is used for gonorrhea and syphilis. Healers used Ivan tea in the treatment of epilepsy, alcoholic psychoses, anemia, as an emollient and diaphoretic for colds, as well as in the treatment of various types of malignant tumors.

Raspberry is a wild or cultivated semi-shrub from the Rosaceae family up to 1.5 m in height, with a perennial rhizome developing biennial aboveground stems. Her flowers are white with a barely perceptible pleasant aroma. Petals are smaller than sepals with many stamens and pistils. Mass flowering of raspberries occurs in late May or early June (depending on spring and where it grows) and lasts two to three weeks. Wild raspberries contain about 10% sugars, organic acids and their salts, vitamins A, B, C. Seeds contain up to 22% fatty oil. Many forest birds and animals feed on raspberries. Forest raspberries are a good honey plant: 100 kg of honey is obtained from 1 hectare of thickets. Garden raspberries contain up to 11.5% sugar (glucose, fructose and sucrose), organic acids (citric, malic, salicylic), tannins, pectin (up to 0.9%), fiber (4-6%), anthocyanins , flavonoids, minerals and trace elements (iron, potassium, copper, calcium, magnesium, cobalt, zinc), vitamins C, B1, B2, PP, folic acid, provitamin A. Garden raspberries contain much more salicylic acid than forest therefore it is more useful for colds. Raspberries are depleted in vitamin C but fortified with iron. There is more iron in raspberries than in other fruit crops (per 100 g of berries - 2-3.6 mg), except for cherries and gooseberries. Its seeds contain fatty oil and beta-sitosterol, which have anti-sclerotic properties. The leaves contain flavonoids, organic acids. Raspberry flowers have anti-inflammatory and anti-toxic effects. An infusion to which raspberry flowers are added is recommended for hemorrhoids. In case of stomach disorders (heartburn, pain, feeling of heaviness after eating) leaves, flowers and raspberry branches are irreplaceable. Inflamed eyes and facial skin from acne are washed with a decoction of raspberry flowers. Raspberry leaves and flowers contain tannins, flavonoids, sugars, organic acids, vitamin C and various mineral salts. Infusion of raspberry leaves and flowers is taken internally and externally as a blood purifier for skin diseases, vitamin deficiencies, rashes, eczema, erysipelas, measles, articular rheumatism (lotions from a decoction of raspberry leaves and flowers are placed on sore spots); with infectious diseases, with fever; and externally - for washing the eyes with conjunctivitis and blepharitis. Popularly, raspberry flowers and leaves are used in the form of an infusion, which is drunk with colitis, the same infusion is used to gargle with sore throats. Infusion of raspberry flowers is used as an antidote for the bites of poisonous snakes and scorpions, as well as for diseases of the female genital area. Infusion of dried raspberry flower can be used to wash to get rid of acne and inflammation on the skin of the face.

Hazel leaves contain a lot of essential oils, acids (ascorbic, palmitic), glycoside myricitroside and many others. From them, you can prepare a tonic drink that will effectively support the immune system. Also, hazel leaves are quite effective in treating diseases of the heart and blood vessels, and their beneficial properties in these areas have been tested by practice.

Motherwort drugs have sedative, anticonvulsant, cardiotonic, diuretic effects. It has been experimentally established that motherwort preparations have a calming effect on the central nervous system, 3-4 times stronger than valerian tincture. The aboveground part of the plant, as an official raw material, was included in the Pharmacopoeia of the Soviet Union. Infusion, tincture, motherwort herb extract are used as a sedative for neuroses, hypertension, angina pectoris. In practical medicine - cardiotonic, with neurasthenia, psychasthenia, vegetative-vascular dystonia, functional disorders of the central nervous system in the climacteric period. In obstetric and gynecological practice, it is used (in fees) throughout pregnancy, as improving the activity of the digestive and excretory systems, with toxicosis and thyrotoxicosis, various disorders of the reproductive cycle in women, with uterine fibroids, in the climacteric period. The herb extract in clinical trials for epilepsy increases the intervals between seizures: in case of cerebral contusion and cerebral atherosclerosis, it reduces the intensity of headache, improves sleep, and has a positive effect on sexual dysfunction in men; the effectiveness of motherwort preparations in cardiosclerosis, myocarditis, myocardial dystrophy, heart defects, cerebral contusions, and Graves' disease is also noted. The climacteric phenomena caused by excitement and a state of fear with strong heartbeat, especially when lying down, with anxiety and shortness of breath, are the main indications for the use of this plant. But both flatulence and gastrointestinal diseases are quite suitable for its use.

Horsetail, which is considered a stubborn weed, can actually be very valuable. In the considered family of plants, the field horsetail is considered the most useful - the medicinal properties of its shoots have long been used in both folk and traditional medicine. With their help, you can get rid of many external, dermatological diseases, as well as pathologies of internal organs. Horsetail has been used as a medicinal plant since ancient times. It was used to treat tumors of the stomach and liver, dropsy, intestinal disorders, etc. Later, this plant and its wonderful medicinal properties were forgotten, and was used only as a herb for cleaning pewter dishes. At present, the entire terrestrial part of the horsetail is used in official and traditional medicine, cooking and as a cosmetic product used in the form of infusions, decoctions and lotions. It is also used as one of the weight loss products. For culinary purposes, young juicy shoots are used, harvested in spring, which, boiled or fried, are added to an omelet, casserole. Also greens are used as a filling for pies and pancakes, the main active ingredients of raw materials are flavonoids, derivatives of apigenin, luteolin, kaempferol, quercetin and silicic acid; phenolcarboxylic acids, tannins. Horsetail herb contains saponin equisetonin about 55 mg%, silicic acid up to 25 mg%, organic acids (linoleic, aconitic, malic, oxalic), tannins, flavonoids, bitterness, proteins up to 1.6%, fatty oil up to 3.5 %, traces of alkaloids, carotene up to 4.7 mg%, vitamin C from 30 to 190 mg%, calcium, potassium, iron, copper, magnesium, zinc.

Viburnum fruits contain up to 20% dry matter, up to 11% sugars, 3.1% organic acids, pectin substances that adsorb all the bad things that accumulate as a result of the digestion of unhealthy foods like smoked meats and fast food, 40 mg% vitamin C, tannins and dyes, P-active polyphenols (strengthens capillaries), flavonols. The seeds contain fatty oil (up to 21%). An infusion or decoction of berries is taken orally for stomach or intestinal ulcers.

Inflorescences of red (meadow) clover contain glycosides tripolin and isotrifoline, tannins, essential and fatty oils, organic acids, including salicylic acids, carotene, vitamins B1, B2, C, E, K. Red clover has anti-inflammatory and antiseptic properties, which significantly expands the scope of its application. It is useful for diseases of the gastrointestinal tract (gout, diseases of the gallbladder, liver, intestines), viral and bacterial diseases of ENT organs (angina, tonsillitis, acute respiratory infection), for flu, colds, rheumatoid arthritis.

It should be noted that more than half of the above grasses and plants are melliferous, they are raw materials for the biodiversity of nectar pollen plants.

Each component of the composition under consideration is an integral part of the tea composition and only in combination with other components determines consumer properties, namely taste, smell, color, which lead to an increase in biological and nutritional value with a simultaneous improvement in the organoleptic characteristics of this invention.

For use, all plants indicated in the composition must be dried separately, and crushed separately. Then it is necessary in each separate mixture (of three) to take herbs in the same quantity among themselves: the first mixture - St. John's wort, horsetail grass, chamomile flowers, raspberry leaves, hawthorn flowers - within 44-56% of the total weight of the composition of the tea composition, the second mixture - viburnum fruits, motherwort herb, elecampane roots, red rowan flowers, hazel leaves - 26-34%, the third mixture - red clover flowers, linden flowers, fireweed leaves, oregano herb, thyme herb, mint leaves - 18-22% ... After selecting all the components of the herbs, they must be placed in a mixer and mixed. After blending, they can be packaged in packages of 25 g, 50 g, 100 g 500 g.

Table 1 below shows three examples of a new composition obtained in this way and having consumer properties that meet the requirements of the food industry.

Studies of the proposed dried tea composition (composition 2) were carried out for physicochemical and microbiological indicators, toxic elements and mycotokines, which are indicated in table. 2.

The tea composition is industrially applicable because physicochemical and microbiological indicators, toxic elements and mycotokines indicated in Table 1 do not exceed the maximum permissible concentration (MPC) approved by GOSTs, moreover, the proposed composition does not contain previously unknown agents that are not allowed for use by a wide range of consumers.

The composition can be used as a food product.

A tasting was carried out to determine the organoleptic characteristics of the presented tea composition containing mint leaves, hawthorn flowers, chamomile flowers, St. John's wort, oregano herb, thyme herb, linden flowers, red rowan flowers, motherwort herb, horsetail grass, hazel leaves, elecampane roots, leaves raspberries, fireweed leaves, red clover flowers, viburnum fruits. The following was revealed (Table 3.):

Appearance - a mixture of dried crushed components. Taste, aroma are characteristic of the products from which the tea composition is made. Free of foreign tastes and odors. The infusion is transparent, characteristic of the color of the components (ND for the test method GOST 32572-2014).

The tea composition for consumption is brewed in boiling water and kept for several minutes: 1 tablespoon of the collection per glass of boiling water, kept for 10-15 minutes, filtered. The product can be used both hot and cold.

Therefore, it can be argued that the proposed invention meets the criteria of patentability, that is, it is new and has an inventive step.

The technical solution of the present invention is fully implemented since a composition with increased biological value with a simultaneous improvement in food and organoleptic characteristics was obtained.

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Claims (1)

A tea composition containing mint leaves, hawthorn flowers, chamomile flowers, St. John's wort, oregano herb, thyme herb, linden flowers, red rowan flowers, characterized in that it additionally contains motherwort herb, horsetail herb, hazel leaves, elecampane roots, leaves raspberries, fireweed leaves, red clover flowers, viburnum fruits, while it is necessary in each separate mixture (of three) to take the components in the same amount among themselves, with the following ratio of components, wt%: St. John's wort, horsetail grass, chamomile flowers, raspberry leaves, hawthorn flowers - 44-56; viburnum fruits, motherwort herb, elecampane roots, red rowan flowers, hazel leaves - 26-34; red clover flowers, linden flowers, fireweed leaves, oregano herb, thyme herb, mint leaves - 18-22.