摘要:
The present invention is concerned with Capsicum plants producing greater than about 0.4% zeaxanthin, by weight in the dried, ripe fruit pod flesh, which plants have been developed from commercially grown Capsicum cultivars by plant breeding techniques. Zeaxanthin is the dominant carotenoid in the dried ripe fruit pod flesh, when measured in non-esterified forms. Alternatively, these plants may be characterized as exhibiting a high pigmentation measured as an ASIA value and further characterized by the predominant presence of zeaxanthin. The zeaxanthin derived from these Capsicum plants can be used in applications that include nutritional supplements, foods, functional foods, cosmetics, animal feeds, aquaculture feeds, and pharmaceuticals.
摘要:
An activated ascorbic acid and compositions thereof are disclosed, especially such essentially anhydrous compositions as embody propylene glycol or a nonionic surface-active agent, which products have increased antioxidant activity in fats, oils, carotenoids, and fatty foods, especially in such materials as are exposed to oxidative stress. Further a method of stabilizing such materials and products against oxidative discoloration is disclosed wherein feeds and foodstuffs are stabilized with such composition, and a method of stabilizing a feed or foodstuff or flavoring with such an antioxidant composition, are all disclosed. Synergistic effects are obtained by the incorporation of a natural antioxidant, such as a Labiatae or tea extract, or a tocopherol therein, and antioxidant power and stabilization effectiveness is frequently further improved by inclusion therein of a second nonionic surface-active agent.
摘要:
A beer flavored with a non-acidic hop-flavor fraction is disclosed. This hop fraction is made by extraction of hops and further treatment to provide an extract which is essentially devoid of alpha and beta acids.
摘要:
A norbixin complex with a water-soluble or water-dispersible branched-chain or cyclic polysaccharide or a water-soluble or water-dispersible protein, which will not precipitate upon standing in water, which gives an essentially stable bright reddish or magenta solution in water, and from which complex norbixin cannot be removed by centrifugation, as well as a process for preparing such a complex of norbixin and a substrate, selected from a water-soluble or water-dispersible branched-chain or cyclic polysaccharide and a water-soluble or water-dispersible protein, by contacting the substrate and norbixin in an aqueous solution at an alkaline pH, e.g., above about 8.5, at which pH the norbixin is present in its water-soluble orange alkaline form, and then acidifying to drop the pH to below about 7.7, preferably below about 6.8, thereby complexing the norbixin in its neutral to acidic reddish or magenta form with the substrate, are disclosed.
摘要:
Two-phase and salt-containing intermediate products and the final purified hop flavor which is essentially free of impurities and which purified isoalpha acid or isohumulone will therefore not produce fruity, estery, sour aromas when used to flavor beverages, e.g., beer or ale, are disclosed. A rapid test for the detection of such aromas, involving dissolution of the hop flavor in ethanol at a concentration of one-half percent w/v and allowing the solution to stand for four days, allows accelerated determination of the presence or absence of such aromas and the odor-forming impurities which cause the undesirable odors.
摘要:
Precise control of hop aromatic flavors and hop bitter acids in beer is achieved by adsorbing these hop flavors on fumed silicon dioxide and dosing the fumed silicon dioxide containing adsorbed hop flavor into beer, preferably after suspending the fumed silicon dioxide containing the adsorbed flavors in an aqueous medium. The hop flavors are desorbed in the beer and fumed silicon dioxide solids become available as a clarifying agent and are subsquently filtered from the beer.
摘要:
A homogeneous liquid condimental composition, useful in flavoring or coloring foods and beverages and which is dispersible in both oil and water, consisting essentially of (1) lecithin, (2) tartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides, and (3) one or more condiments selected from edible flavorings and edible colorings, the ratio by weight of (1) plus (2) to (3) being at least 1:4, preferably at least 1:3, especially about 1:1, the condiment portion (3) preferably comprising at least one condiment selected from the group consisting of (a) spice oleoresins, (b) essential oils, and (c) edible colorings, the ratios by weight of (2) to (1) preferably being between about 3:7 and 3:1, and the condiment portion (3) preferably comprising oleoresin black pepper.
摘要:
A homogeneous liquid condimental composition, useful in flavoring or coloring foods and beverages and which is dispersible in both oil and water, consisting essentially of (1) hydroxylated lecithin, (2) tartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides, and (3) one or more condiments selected from edible flavorings and edible colorings, the ratio by weight of (1) plus (2) to (3) being at least 1:4, preferably at least 1:3, especially about 1:1, the condiment portion (3) preferably comprising at least one condiment selected from the group consisting of (a) spice oleoresins, (b) essential oils, and (c) edible colorings, the ratios by weight of (2) to (1) preferably being between about 1:3 and 3:1, and the condiment portion (3) preferably comprising oleoresin black pepper.
摘要:
The water-soluble and fat-insoluble polyphenolic antioxidants (catechins) present in green tea are made into solution in an edible nonionic lipid-soluble solvent for the tea catechins selected from the group consisting of a fatty alcohol containing 8 to 18 carbon atoms, inclusive, preferably 12 to 14 carbon atoms, inclusive, and a non-ionic surface active agent selected from the group consisting of glyceryl mono-oleate, liquid mono- and di-glycerides, acylated mono- and di-glycerides, benzyl alcohol, triacetin, caproic-caprylic acid polyglycerides, polysorbate, especially glyceryl mono-oleate, and mixtures thereof, which solutions are effective antioxidants in fats, oil, foods, and ingredients of foods without imparting undesirable flavors, aromas, and precipitates. Since it is known that tea polyphenols have positive effects on human health, the resulting stabilized lipids can be considered to have nutritional qualities superior to the same lipid stabilized with common synthetic antioxidants. Unexpectedly strong synergistic effects with other natural antioxidants and with phosphates are also shown.
摘要:
Solid ascorbic acid particles of less than 38 microns in size are shown to be effective antioxidants for substrates in which ascorbic acid is insoluble, such as animal and vegetable oils, essential oils, carotenoids, and the like, at weight concentrations of 0.02% and even at 0.005% or below. These particles are preferably prepared by wet milling ascorbic acid in a medium in which it is insoluble, until the size is less than 38 microns, and preferably less. Employment of such particles in a medium in which they are insoluble, as well as employment in the stabilization of fats, oils, and foods, is demonstrated.