Patent Application
20130089641
1. Technical Field
The present invention relates to a soymilk, and more particularly, to a soymilk with additive of Vitamin C, Vitamin C salts or Vitamin C stereoisomer, which is helpful to increase the iron absorptivity in small intestine.
2. Description of Related Art
According to reports proposed by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and the World Health Organization (WHO), iron deficiency is a noticeable issue of nutritional deficit. The iron deficiency issue is not merely spread in those backward and developing countries, but it does not be completely solved in advanced America and Europe areas. Iron deficiency is a progressive and successive changing process. Iron deficiency shows the exhaustion of the iron stored in human body at the early stage, such that iron in blood intends to shortage and can not meet the demand of the hematopoietic tissue. Eventually, anaemia is occurred and resulted from heme synthetase, thus, it is able to know that the anaemia is the symptom of the iron deficiency at the last stage thereof.
For iron deficiency issue is spread, the nutritional fortification of flour is conducted in America since 1943, and the nutrients added in to the flour include Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B3, and Iron. However, according to the investigation reported by the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III), the women in childrenbearing ages show the highest prevalence of iron deficiency ranging from 9% to 11%, next high prevalence of iron deficiency is 9% shown by the children who are 1-2 years old, and the men show the prevalence of iron deficiency lower than 2%.
According to the human body and animal experiments, it can know that the iron deficiency impacts two immune functions of human body, which are (1) reducing the phagocytosis of the neutrophils and (2) reducing the reaction of T-lymphocyte for the cell proliferation dose or the antigen. In addition, the activity of protein DMT1 would increased when the body is in iron deficiency situation, however, the absorptivity of the protein DMT1 for some bivalent metallic elements, such as lead and chromium, will be increased because the protein DMT1 lacks specificity.
Moreover, researches find that the primary impact factors of iron absorption include the bioavailability and the chemical forms of iron. The chemical forms of iron can be divided into “heme iron” and “non-heme iron”. Heme iron is mainly obtained from meat and the average absorption rate thereof is 25%. Oppositely, non-heme iron is obtained from various plant foods, such as ferritin and supplements-iron, wherein the average absorption rate of non-heme iron is 7.5%. Besides, the absorption rate of non-heme iron may be affected by food composition; therefore, iron bioavailability represents that the iron in the food capable of being normally digested and absorbed in human body, which is a combination result of several physiological processes, wherein the physiological processes consist the steps of: (1) digesting; (2) iron being intaken by intestinal cell and transported by blood; and (3) forming function-based protein to perform the physiological function thereof. In addition, researches and experiments also find that vitamin C and muscle proteins coming from poultry, livestock, fish, or shellfish may encourage the absorption rate of iron. Furthermore, researches and experiments find that vitamin C content is directly proportional to the absorption rate of iron if the vitamin C content is ranged in 25˜100 mg, however, there is no further change in the absorption rate of iron when the vitamin C content is greater than 100 mg.
Soymilk is a common drink in human life, which is made by using soybean (or black bean) as the raw material. Soymilk is rich in nutritional value and medicinal function, for instance, protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, zinc, vitamin A, vitamin B, etc. So that, in view of the soymilk is rich in nutritional value and medicinal function, scholars believe that diabetes, hypertension, cancer, bronchitis, Alzheimer's dementia, and constipation may be prevented if people properly drink the soymilk, so as to help people to stay fit and healthy.
Although soymilk is rich in nutritional value and medicinal function, the soymilk contains large amounts of oxalic acid and phytic acid. The oxalic acid and the phytic acid may easily become ferrous chelates and form the ferrous oxalate and the ferrous phytate for precipitation, such that the absorption rate of iron will be decreased. Therefore, the anaemia resulted from iron deficiency may occurs on the soymilk long-term drinkers.
Accordingly, in view of the soymilk is rich in nutritional value and medicinal function, the inventor of the present application desire to research and develop a kind of soymilk, which will not impact the absorption rate of iron in human body. So that, the inventor of the present application has made great efforts to make inventive research thereon and eventually provided a soymilk with additive of vitamin C, vitamin C salts or vitamin C stereoisomer.
The first objective of the present invention is to provide a soymilk with vitamin C additive, wherein when people drink the soymilk with vitamin C additive, the inhibition of iron bioavailability may be reduced because the effect of the ascorbate ion dissociated from the ascorbic acid, and furthermore, the iron absorptivity in small intestine can be increased.
Accordingly, to achieve the first objective of the present invention, the inventor proposes a soymilk with vitamin C additive, which is manufactured by way of adding an ascorbic acid into a drink made by using at least one kind of bean as the raw material, and helpful to increase the iron absorptivity in small intestine, wherein the additive dosage of the ascorbic acid is ranged from 25 mg/100 ml to 50 mg/100 ml.
The second objective of the present invention is to provide a soymilk with additive of vitamin C salts, wherein when people drink the soymilk with additive of vitamin C salts, the inhibition of iron bioavailability may be reduced because the effect of the ascorbate ion dissociated from the ascorbate, and furthermore, the iron absorptivity in small intestine can be increased.
So that, in order to achieve the second objective of the present invention, the inventor proposes a soymilk with additive of vitamin C salts, which is manufactured by way of adding an ascorbate into a drink made by using at least one kind of bean as the raw material, and helpful to increase the iron absorptivity in small intestine, wherein the equivalent dosage of the ascorbate ion provided by the ascorbate is ranged from 25 mg/100 ml to 50 mg/100 ml.
The third objective of the present invention is to provide a soymilk with additive of vitamin C stereoisomer, wherein when people drink the soymilk with additive of vitamin C stereoisomer, the inhibition of iron bioavailability may be reduced because the effect of the ascorbate ion dissociated from the ascorbic acid stereoisomer, and furthermore, the iron absorptivity in small intestine can be increased.
So that, in order to achieve the third objective of the present invention, the inventor proposes a soymilk with additive of vitamin C stereoisomer, which is manufactured by way of adding an ascorbic acid stereoisomer into a drink made by using at least one kind of bean as the raw material, and helpful to increase the iron absorptivity in small intestine, wherein the equivalent dosage of the ascorbate ion provided by the ascorbic acid stereoisomer is ranged from 25 mg/100 ml to 50 mg/100 ml.
The invention as well as a preferred mode of use and advantages thereof will be best understood by referring to the following detailed description of an illustrative embodiment in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein:
To more clearly describe a soymilk with additive of vitamin C, vitamin C salts or vitamin C stereoisomer according to the present invention, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the attached drawings hereinafter.
Soymilk is a common drink in human life; so that, it is easily to know that people will often drink soymilk. Although soymilk is rich in nutritional value and medicinal function, the soymilk contains large amounts of oxalic acid and phytic acid. The oxalic acid and the phytic acid may easily become ferrous chelates and form the ferrous oxalate and the ferrous phytate for precipitation, such that the absorption rate of iron will be decreased. Therefore, the anaemia resulted from iron deficiency may occurs on the soymilk long-term drinkers. In addition, researches also find that vitamin C content is directly proportional to the absorption rate because vitamin C may inhibit the combination of substances and the iron, such that iron ions can easily be released and become water-soluble forms, so as to be absorbed by human body. (Please refer to the papers: (1) Hallberg L, Brune M, Rossander-Hulthén L (1987). Is there a physiological role of vitamin C in iron absorption? Ann N Y Acad Sci., 498:324-32; and (2) Hunt J R, Mullen L M, Lykken G I, Gallagher S K, Nielsen F H (1990). Ascorbic acid: effect on ongoing iron absorption and status in iron-depleted young women. Am J Clin Nutr. April; 51(4):649-55)). It must note that vitamin C commonly consists the forms of: ascorbic acid, calcium ascorbate, sodium ascorbate, zinc ascorbate, potassium ascorbate. Moreover, there also exists synthetic stereoisomer of vitamin C, such as isoascorbic acid, calcium isoascorbate, sodium isoascorbate, zinc isoascorbate, and potassium isoascorbate.
Accordingly, in order to eliminate the misgivings of suffering from the iron deficiency anemia of the soymilk long-term drinkers and make them able to continuously keep the habit of drinking soymilk; thus, the present invention provides a soymilk with vitamin C additive manufactured by way of adding an ascorbic acid into a drink made by using at least one kind of bean as the raw material, and the soymilk with vitamin C additive is helpful to increase the iron absorptivity in small intestine, wherein the additive dosage of the ascorbic acid is ranged from 25 mg/100 ml to 50 mg/100 ml. Herein, because the ascorbic acid can be obtained from native foods or made by way of chemical synthesis, the ascorbic acid added into the drink made by using the bean as the raw material is not limited to native ascorbic acid or synthetic ascorbic acid. Besides, because both soybean and black bean can be fabricated to the soymilk, the bean as the raw material of the soymilk is not limited to the soybean or the black bean.
Moreover, according to others forms of vitamin C, in the present invention, it also provides a soymilk with additive of vitamin C salts manufactured by way of adding an ascorbate into a drink made by using at least one kind of bean as the raw material. Similarly, the soymilk with vitamin C additive is helpful to increase the iron absorptivity in small intestine, wherein the equivalent dosage of the ascorbate ion provided by the ascorbate is ranged from 25 mg/100 ml to 50 mg/100 ml. In the soymilk with additive of vitamin C salts, the ascorbate added into the soymilk may be calcium ascorbate, sodium ascorbate, zinc ascorbate, or potassium ascorbate. Of course, for the soymilk with additive of vitamin C salts, the ascorbate is not limited to native ascorbate or synthetic ascorbate.
In addition, according to others forms of vitamin C, in the present invention, it further provides a soymilk with additive of vitamin C stereoisomer manufactured by way of adding an ascorbic acid stereoisomer into a drink made by using at least one kind of bean as the raw material. Similarly, the soymilk with vitamin C additive is helpful to increase the iron absorptivity in small intestine, wherein the equivalent dosage of the ascorbate ion provided by the ascorbic acid stereoisomer is ranged from 25 mg/100 ml to 50 mg/100 ml. In the soymilk with additive of vitamin C stereoisomer, the ascorbic acid stereoisomer added into the soymilk may be isoascorbic acid, calcium isoascorbate, sodium isoascorbate, zinc isoascorbate, and potassium isoascorbate.
Through above descriptions, all embodiments of the soymilk with additive of vitamin C, vitamin C salts or vitamin C stereoisomer of the present invention have been introduced and described. Next, for proving that the iron bioavailability can be increased after people drink the soymilk with additive of vitamin C, vitamin C salts or vitamin C stereoisomer, multi experiments and the data thereof are made and reported. In which, “in vitro digestion and dialysis” is used in the experiments for determining the releasable iron in human body after the foods are digested.
Firstly, iron(II) sulfate heptahydrate is used as a standard in the experiment, and the in vitro digestion and dialysis of the iron(II) sulfate heptahydrate is done. Therefore, experiment result shows only 50.39% iron ions can be released after the aqueous solution of ferrous sulfate with 100 ppm iron ions has been processed by gastric and intestinal fluid, and it implies that human body can not absorb all the iron ions because 49.61% iron ions are naturally inhibited by human body.
In addition, according to the database of United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), it is able to know that soymilk contains 4 ppm iron, however, there have no iron ions be determined after the in vitro digestion and dialysis of the soymilk is completed. It implies that the release of iron ions are not only inhibited by human body but also inhibited by the composition of the soymilk, so that the iron in the soymilk can not be completely released in human body.
For improving that, a first experiment in the present invention is done, that is, to respectively add the ascorbic acid and the calcium ascorbate into the soymilk and determine the concentration of the releasable iron thereof. Please refer to following Table (1), which is a statistical table of the releasable iron concentration in the soymilk.
In Table (1), it is obvious that the inhibition of soymilk on iron release is reduced when the ascorbic acid and the calcium ascorbate are respectively added into the soymilk, so that the iron ions in the soymilk are able to be released into the digestive fluid. Moreover, if it adds more additive dosage of ascorbic acid into the soymilk, the iron naturally inhibited by gastric and intestinal fluid can also be released. Therefore, experiment result has been proved that the ascorbic acid and the calcium ascorbate may encourage the release of the iron in the soymilk.
For more proving that the iron release rate can be increased when the ascorbic acid, the ascorbate, or ascorbate stereoisomer is added into the soymilk, a second experiment is done, that is, to respectively add ferrous sulfate, ferrous bisglycinate, ferric pyrophosphate, and ferrous gluconate into the soymilk and determine the concentration of the releasable iron thereof. Thus, in the second experiment, the ferrous sulfate, the ferrous bisglycinate, the ferric pyrophosphate, and the ferrous gluconate are respectively added into soymilk by different concentration gradients, and a point showing that the releasable iron concentration starts to rise with the incensement of the additive dosage is taken as a datum point; besides, the releasable iron concentration is taken as an initially inhibiting concentration. The results of the second experiment are shown in following Table (2), which is a statistical table of the releasable iron concentration in the soymilk with different additives.
1.76
1.90
2.08
1.22
Please refer to
Please refer to
Sequentially, in a third experiment, different additive dosage of VC, NaVC, KVC, and CaVC, are respectively into the soymilk with 20 ppm ferrous bisglycinate for testing the effect of encouraging the release of iron ions, and the experiment results are listed in following Table (8), Table (9), Table (10), Table (11), and Table (12).
Moreover, Please refer to
Next, in a fourth experiment, it respectively adds different additive dosage of VC, NaVC, KVC, and CaVC into the soymilk with 50 ppm ferric pyrophosphate for testing the effect of encouraging the release of iron ions, and the experiment results are listed in following Table (13), Table (14), Table (15), Table (16), and Table (17).
Please refer to
Sequentially, in a fifth experiment, it respectively adds different additive dosage of VC, NaVC, KVC, and CaVC into the soymilk with 30 ppm ferrous gluconate for testing the effect of encouraging the release of iron ions, and the experiment results are listed in following Table (83), Table (19), Table (20), Table (21), Table (22), and Table (23).
Please refer to
So that, according the above experiment results, it is able to know the releasable iron concentration in the soymilk with different iron dosages. In addition, in following Table (24), it lists the most effective additive dosage of the ascorbic acid and the ascorbates for being added into the soymilk with different iron dosages.
So that, through above experiment results, it can easily know that the vitamin C and the slats therefore indeed increase the iron release rate in human body; Moreover, the beast vitamin C additive dosage is 25˜50 mg/ml when using the ferrous gluconate as a standard.
However, everyone knows that vitamin C includes a stereoisomer called isoascorbic acid, and the physical and chemical properties of the isoascorbic acid are similar to the vitamin C. Although the isoascorbic acid can not be utilized by the body enzyme, the experiment results also prove that the isoascorbic acid can also encourage the release of iron in the soymilk. Wherein the experiment results are abstained from a sixth experiment in the present invention, that is, to add sodium isoascorbate into a soymilk with 30 ppm ferrous gluconate for testing the releasable iron concentration, and the experiment results are listed in following Table (25).
Moreover, please refer to
Furthermore, it must especially introduce that, for a variety of soymilks are sold in markets, for example, brown rice soymilk, milk soymilk, oats soymilk, coffee milk, and black tea milk, it can further add brown rice, milk, oats, coffee, or black tea into the soymilk with additive of vitamin C, vitamin C slats, or vitamin C stereroisomer of proposed by the present invention; Therefore, when people drink the soymilk with additive of vitamin C, vitamin C slats, or vitamin C stereroisomer, people can not only improved the iron absorptivity in small intestines but also get different textures from the soymilk. Actually, the soymilk with additive of vitamin C, vitamin C slats, or vitamin C stereroisomer may be manufactured to a formulated soymilk powder for the soymilk manufacturer when it is mass produced. Wherein the contents in the formulated soymilk powder are listed in following Table (26)
As shown in Table (26), the formulated soymilk powder consists of NaVC (sodium vitamin C), lactic acid bacteria, saccharomycete, and maltodextrin, in which the lactic acid bacteria is NTU 101 lactic acid bacteria powder, the saccharomycete is yeast powder with vitamin B complex. Moreover, it must note that, when manufacturing the formulated soymilk powder, it must pre-add 25% NaVC in the formulated soymilk powder because there has 25% NaVC consumption when processing ultra heat treat of the formulated soymilk powder.
Therefore, the above descriptions have been clearly and completely introduced the of the soymilk with additive of vitamin C, vitamin C slats, or vitamin C stereroisomer according to the present invention, moreover, the efficiencies of the soymilk with additive of vitamin C, vitamin C slats, or vitamin C stereroisomer are proved by multi experiment results; In summary, the present invention has the following advantages:
1. Because the soymilk with additive of vitamin C, vitamin C slats, or vitamin C stereroisomer may increase the iron bioavailability, it can be used for replacing the traditional soymilk, so that, the soymilk long-term drinkers can not only eliminate the misgivings of suffering from the iron deficiency anemia but also keep the habit of drinking soymilk.
2. Moreover, it can further add brown rice, milk, oats, coffee, or black tea into the soymilk with additive of vitamin C, vitamin C slats, or vitamin C stereroisomer of proposed by the present invention; Therefore, when people drink the soymilk with additive of vitamin C, vitamin C slats, or vitamin C stereroisomer, people can not only improved the iron absorptivity in small intestines but also get different textures from the soymilk.
3. For the soymilk with additive of vitamin C, vitamin C slats, or vitamin C stereroisomer, which is not limited to be made by way of adding the vitamin C, the vitamin C slats, or the vitamin C stereroisomer into the soymilk, the soymilk with additive of vitamin C, vitamin C slats, or vitamin C stereroisomer may be manufactured to a formulated soymilk powder for the soymilk manufacturer when it is mass produced.
The above description is made on embodiments of the present invention. However, the embodiments are not intended to limit scope of the present invention, and all equivalent implementations or alterations within the spirit of the present invention still fall within the scope of the present invention.
