摘要:
The invention provides a composition containing reduced coenzyme Q10, which is useful as a pharmaceutical product, food, cosmetic, animal drug, feed, and the like, as well as a stabilization method thereof. The oxidation of reduced coenzyme Q10 into oxidized coenzyme Q10 by molecular oxygen can be suppressed by setting, in a composition containing reduced coenzyme Q10 and at least one kind of oil component selected from the group consisting of fat, oil, a mixture thereof, fatty acid, wax and a surfactant, the weight ratio of the reduced coenzyme Q10 to the oil component to not less than 1/4 when the composition is a liquid, and not less than 1/9 when the composition is a solid.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a process for producing reduced coenzyme Q10 which comprises obtaining microbial cells containing reduced coenzyme Q10 at a ratio of not less than 70 mole % among the entire coenzymes Q10, optionally disrupting the cells and recovering thus produced reduced coenzyme Q10. The present invention also relates to a process for producing oxidized coenzyme Q10 which comprises either recovering oxidized coenzyme Q10 after oxidizing the above-mentioned microbial cells or disrupted product thereof, or recovering reduced coenzyme Q10 from the above-mentioned microbial cells or disrupted product thereof to oxidize thus-obtained reduced coenzyme Q10 thereafter. According to the processes of the present invention, reduced coenzyme Q10 and oxidized coenzyme Q10 can be produced simply on the industrial scale.