LACTOFERRIN HYDROLYSATE AND COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING IT

• Main Authors: MAMORU TOMITA, KOUZOU KAWASE, HIROAKI ABE, YOSHITAKA TAMURA, KOJI YAMAUCHI, SEIICHI SHIMAMURA, SUSUMU KOBAYASHI, HIROSHI MIYAKAWA, HITOSHI SAITO, MITSUNORI TAKASE
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 28.04.1993
• Edition: 5
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES, AS HERBICIDES; FISHING; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; FORESTRY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PHOSPHATIDE COMPOSITIONS FOR FOODSTUFFS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTSTHEREOF; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; PROTEIN COMPOSITIONS FOR FOODSTUFFS; SPECIFIC USE OF COSMETICS OR SIMILAR TOILETPREPARATIONS; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES; TRAPPING; WORKING-UP PROTEINS FOR FOODSTUFFS

Lactoferrin hydrolyzates, having a decomposition rate between 4-50% as measured by formol titration, for use as a tyrosinase inhibition agent, which are obtainable by the conventional method for hydrolysis with acid or enzyme, and which are stable to heating.