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Dietary product containing glucomannan powder and method for preparing
Assignee: Maruzen Shokuhin KK
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Filing: 1988-05-16
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Granted: 1989-07-04
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Expires: 2008-05-16
Abstract
Abstract Disclosed is a dietary foodstuff comprising: (a) glucomannan powder; (b) soybean powder, at 30-100% by weight glucomannan powder, that has been reacted with a protein hydrolysis enzyme, at 5-15% by weight soybean powder; (c) bittern, at 0.5-3% by weight glucomannan powder; (d) refined rice flour, at 0.5-7% by weight glucomannan powder; (e) water, at 10-70 times by weight glucomannan powder; and (f) glucomannan powder coagulant, at 5-10% by weight glucomannan powder, soybean flour, enzyme, bittern, and rice flour.
Inventors
- 👤 Ikuzo Ogawa
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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2026-11-03 05:30
CPC Classifications
C; C12; C12Y; C12Y304/00; C12Y304/22; C12Y304/22004; A; A23; A23L; A23L29/00; A23L29/20; A23L29/206; A23L29/244; A23L33/00; A23L33/20; A23L33/21; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S426/00; Y10S426/804
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 11
Claim 1
Independent Claim
76 words
A dietary foodstuff comprising: (a) glucomannan powder; (b) soybean powder, at 30-100% by weight glucomannan powder, that has been reacted with a protein hydrolysis enzyme, at 5-15% by weight soybean powder; (c) bittern, at 0.5-3% by weight glucomannan powder; (d) refined rice flour, at 0.5-7% by weight glucomannan powder; (e) water, at 10-70 times by weight glucomannan powder; and (f) glucomannan powder coagulant, at 5-10% by weight glucomannan powder, soybean powder, enzyme, bittern, and rice flour.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
76 words
A dietary foodstuff comprising: (a) glucomannan powder; (b) soybean powder, at 30-100% by weight glucomannan powder, that has been reacted with a protein hydrolysis enzyme, at 5-15% by weight soybean powder; (c) bittern, at 0.5-3% by weight glucomannan powder; (d) refined rice flour, at 0.5-7% by weight glucomannan powder; (e) water, at 10-70 times by weight glucomannan powder; and (f) glucomannan powder coagulant, at 5-10% by weight glucomannan powder, soybean powder, enzyme, bittern, and rice flour.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
12 words
The foodstuff of claim 1 wherein the protein hydrolysis enzyme is bromelain.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
17 words
The foodstuff of claim 1 wherein the soybean powder is present at 30-60% by weight glucomannan powder.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
23 words
The foodstuff of claim 1 wherein the coagulant is present at 6-10% by weight glucomannan powder, soybean powder, rice flour, enzyme, and bittern.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
16 words
The foodstuff of claim 1 wherein water is present at 25-70 times by weight glucomannan powder.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
156 words
A process for making a dietary foodstuff comprising the steps of: (a) combining a protein hydrolysis enzyme and an aqueous solution of soybean powder and allowing the mixture to stand; (b) combining the mixture from step (a) with an aqueous solution of rice flour and an aqueous solution of bittern; (c) combining the resultant mixture of step (b) with glucomannan powder and allowing the mixture to stand; (d) kneading the resulting mixture of step (c); and (e) combining the kneaded mixture with an aqueous solution of glucomannan coagulant; wherein, based on the weight of glucomannan powder, the soybean flour is used at 30-100%, the rice flour is used at 0.5-7%, and the bittern is used at 0.5-3%, the enzyme is used at 5-15% by weight soybean powder, the coagulant is present at 5-10% by weight glucomannan powder, bittern, rice flour, soybean powder, and coagulant, and water is used at 10-70 times by weight of glucomannan powder.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
156 words
A process for making a dietary foodstuff comprising the steps of: (a) combining a protein hydrolysis enzyme and an aqueous solution of soybean powder and allowing the mixture to stand; (b) combining the mixture from step (a) with an aqueous solution of rice flour and an aqueous solution of bittern; (c) combining the resultant mixture of step (b) with glucomannan powder and allowing the mixture to stand; (d) kneading the resulting mixture of step (c); and (e) combining the kneaded mixture with an aqueous solution of glucomannan coagulant; wherein, based on the weight of glucomannan powder, the soybean flour is used at 30-100%, the rice flour is used at 0.5-7%, and the bittern is used at 0.5-3%, the enzyme is used at 5-15% by weight soybean powder, the coagulant is present at 5-10% by weight glucomannan powder, bittern, rice flour, soybean powder, and coagulant, and water is used at 10-70 times by weight of glucomannan powder.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
16 words
The process of claim 6 wherein soybean powder is used at 30-60% by weight glucomannan powder.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
23 words
The process of claim 6 wherein the coagulant is used at 6-10% by weight glucomannan powder, rice flour, soybean powder, bittern, and enzyme.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
16 words
The process of claim 6 wherein water is used at 25-70 times by weight glucomannan powder.
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