Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate the generation of aggregation, precipitation, and diffusion and to produce stable fine particles efficiently by dissolving two kinds of substances in different compressible supercritical fluids, making the substances penetrate into each other in conditions in which the dissolution limit of one substance exceeds earlier than that of the other substance. SOLUTION: When substances A, B are dissolved in a supercritical fluid, and the pressure of the solution is reduced along a pressure holding section to produce stable fine particles, the substances A, B are dissolved in different compressible supercritical fluids. In conditions in which the dissolution limit of the substance A exceeds earlier than that of the substance B, the substances are made to penetrate into each other. For example, fluids are passed from both supply lines 1, 5 through both high pressure autoclaves 2, 6, where the substances A, B are taken out. Both supply lines 3, 7 are connected to both pressure reducing apparatuses 4, 8, and the mixing of the fluids before pressure reduction is prevented. Moreover, the particles 10 of the substance A are coated with the substance B.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a solid preparation comprising active ingredients where, in addition to its safety, homogeneous and uniform distribution of active compounds is made ensured in all particles of the preparation. SOLUTION: This solid preparation having a multicore structure comprises at least two kinds of active compounds suitable for utilizing in the fields of food, feed, medicine, or cosmetics, wherein at least two cores in the multicore structure have different chemical compositions from each other.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing dried powder oxygen-containing carotenoids, by using a protective colloid not exhibiting disadvantages of conventional technique. SOLUTION: This method for producing dried powder of one or several oxygen-containing carotenoids comprises (a) dispersing one or several kinds of oxygen-containing carotenoids into an aqueous molecular dispersion or a colloidal dispersion of protective colloid and (b) removing water and another solvent used, drying the oxygen-containing carotenoids in the presence or absence of a coating agent to convert the formed dispersion into the dried powder. In the method, at least one kind of a partially hydrolyzed soybean protein having a rate of hydrolysis larger than 5% is used as the protective colloid in the step (a).
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a finely powdered carotenoid preparation controllable to have intended coloration effects and having a high bioavailability. SOLUTION: The production process comprises forming a molecular dispersion of carotenoid at an elevated temperature in a water-miscible volatile organic solvent optionally together with an emulsifier and/or an edible oil and adding a protective colloid to the solution. In this process, the hydrophilic solvent component is transferred to the water phase to form a hydrophobic phase of carotenoid as a nano-disperse phase and the obtained hydrosol is heat-treated at 40-90 deg.C. Then the solvent and water are removed from the heat-treated hydrosol to convert it into a water-dispersible dry powder.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To produce a finely dispersed and physiologically permissible carotenoid or retinoid slurry, having a long preservation stability and usable for coloring a food, in a mild condition by mixing a carotenoid or a retinoid with an aqueous medium in the presence of an emulsifier. SOLUTION: A carotenoid or a retinoid is dissolved in a volatile and water miscible organic solvent at 50-250 deg.C optionally under an elevated pressure within 10sec and thereafter the resultant solution is immediately mixed with an aqueous medium at 0-90 deg.C in the absence of a protecting colloid and in the presence of at least one physiologically permissible emulsifier to form the objective finely dispersed carotenoid or retinoid slurry. Moreover, preferably, any of a lecithin, a mono-, di- or triglyceride, an (acetylated) polycarboxylic acid or an ascorbyl palmitate is used as the emulsifier and the carotenoid or retinoid forms into particles having
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for producing dry powders of one or several carotenoids, said method being characterised in that a) one or several carotenoids are suspended in an aqueous molecularly dispersed or colloidally dispersed solution of a mixture consisting of trehalose and at least one protein-containing protective colloid and b) the obtained suspension is transformed into a dry powder by separation of water and, optionally, additionally used solvents and by subsequent drying, optionally in the presence of a coating material.
Abstract:
A process is described for preparing dry powders of one or more oxygenated carotenoids bya) dispersing one or more oxygenated carotenoids in an aqueous molecular dispersion or colloidal dispersion of a protecting colloid andb) converting the dispersion formed into a dry powder by removing the water and any solvents additionally used and drying, in the presence or absence of a coating material,which comprises using as protecting colloid in process step a) at least one partially hydrolyzed soybean protein having a degree of hydrolysis greater than 5%.
Abstract:
A process is described for preparing dry powders of one or more oxygenated carotenoids bya) dispersing one or more oxygenated carotenoids in an aqueous molecular dispersion or colloidal dispersion of a protecting colloid andb) converting the dispersion formed into a dry powder by removing the water and any solvents additionally used and drying, in the presence or absence of a coating material,which comprises using as protecting colloid in process step a) at least one partially hydrolyzed soybean protein having a degree of hydrolysis greater than 5%.
Abstract:
A dry powder (A) comprising oxygen-containing carotenoid(s) is prepared by dispersing (I) in an aqueous molecular dispersion or colloidal solution of a protective colloid (II) ((II) is soya protein with a degree of degradation of more than 5%) and converting the dispersion into (A) by removing the water (and any additional solvent) and drying (optionally in presence of a coating material). An Independent claim is included for the powder (A) obtained by the process.
Abstract:
Solid compositions of two or more active substances useful in the food, animal feed, pharmaceutical or cosmetic fields have a multi-core structure (secondary particles in which primary particles are embedded in a matrix) with two or more primary particles of a secondary particle having a different chemical composition. An Independent claim is also included for the preparation of the compositions.