MICROCAPSULE FINE PARTICLE ENCAPSULATING FUNCTIONAL PEPTIDE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME

• Main Authors: MISHIMA KENJI, ANDO SETSUKO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 28.10.2010
• Subjects: BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; CULTURE MEDIA; ENZYMOLOGY; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS ORMEDICINAL PREPARATIONS; SPIRITS; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES; VINEGAR; WINE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fine particle-like food which encapsulates functional peptides with an edible base material to prevent the hydrolysis of the functional peptides with digestive enzymes and can be swallowed without being chewed. SOLUTION: This method for producing microcapsule fine particles having an average diameter of 10 to 300 μm and encapsulating the functional peptides therein is characterized by including a process for simultaneously extruding a functional peptide solution and a capsule material solution from the tip of a coaxial multiple tube fine nozzle and dropping the extruded solutions in a fine particle-forming medium, wherein the nozzle comprises a plurality of coaxial tubes; the inner diameters of the innermost tube and the outermost tube at the tip of the nozzle are 25 to 400 μm and 80 to 500 μm, respectively; the functional peptide solution is supplied to the more inner tube than the tube into which the capsule material solution is supplied; and the capsule material solution is supplied to the more outer tube than the tube into which the functional peptide solution is supplied. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT