Sleep promoting composition, and food product, medicinal product, and animal feed containing said composition

• Main Authors: MURAKAMI Hiroki, KAMIKOUCHI Azusa, MORI Ikue, KO Taro, ISHIMOTO Hiroshi
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 01.09.2022
• Subjects: DAIRY PRODUCTS, e.g. MILK, BUTTER, CHEESE; FODDER; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MAKING THEREOF; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; MILK OR CHEESE SUBSTITUTES; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS ORMEDICINAL PREPARATIONS; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES

The present invention addresses the problem of providing a sleep promoting composition which has excellent safety and stability, and which can increase the amount of sleep throughout the night and in the initial part of the night, reduce sleep onset latency, and increase the length of a sleep episode. In addition, the present invention addresses the problem of providing a food product, a medicinal product, and animal feed that contain said sleep promoting composition. This sleep promoting composition is characterized by containing, as an active ingredient, a micro-organism belonging to either Bifidobacterium adolescentis or Lactobacillus plantarum, or a culture thereof.