Claims
- 1. A food composition which comprises a food containing a fat and an antioxidant material which is obtainable by extraction of plant tissue with water and subsequent fractionation by chromatographic methods, and having an infra-red spectrum with the features of a member selected from the group consisting of (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi) and (vii), namely:
- (i) broad band at 3400 cm.sup.-1, strong bands at 1050 and 1650 cm..sup.-1 weak bands at 1250 and 1430 cm..sup.-1 ;
- (ii) broad bands at 3400, 1640 and 1080 cm..sup.-1 additional bands at 1420, 1300 and 810 cm..sup.-1 ;
- (iii) broad band at 3300 cm..sup.-1, strong band at 1390 cm..sup.-1, additional bands at 1070 and 820 cm..sup.-1 ;
- (iv) broad band at 3300 cm..sup.-1, strong band at 1620 cm..sup.-1 additional bands at 1390, 1320, 1080 and 770 cm..sup.-1 ;
- (v) broad band at 3300-3400 cm..sup.-1, strong band at 1650 cm..sup.-1, addl. bands at 1730, 1540, 1250 and 1080 cm..sup.-1, weak bands at 2920, 1400 and 1150 cm..sup.-1 ;
- (vi) broad band at 3430 cm..sup.-1, strong bands at 1600, 1380 and 1150 cm..sup.-1,
- (vii) broad band at 3430 cm..sup.-1, strong bands at 1600, 1380 and 1150 cm..sup.-1.
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This application is a divisional application of Ser. No. 06/846,599 filed Mar. 31, 1986, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,857,325, which is a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 06/726,540 filed Apr. 24, 1985 which is now abandoned.
US Referenced Citations (11)
Non-Patent Literature Citations (2)
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Williams, 1971 Nutrition Against Disease, Bantam Books, NY, pp. 146-149. |
Watt, 1963 Composition of Foods Agriculture Handbook, No. 8, pp. 89, 98 and 113. |
Divisions (1)
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846599 |
Mar 1986 |
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Continuation in Parts (1)
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Apr 1985 |
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