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US 12,427,178 B2Granted
Composition for maintaining or improving oral immune function
AssigneeToyo Shinyaku Co., Ltd.
InventorsTakumi Morikawa, Takashi Iwamoto, Makoto Suzuki, Shinichiro Takashima, Tomoyasu Kamiya
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Abstract
It is a composition comprising young barley grass, used for promoting salivary IgA secretion, maintaining or improving oral immune function, or mucosal immune function, or preventing or alleviating upper airway infection.
Claims1
A method for maintaining or improving mucosal immune function, comprising administering a composition comprising young barley grass ground product to a human continuously for 2 weeks or more, in an amount so that the human ingests 0.25 g or more and 10 g or less of the young barley grass ground product per day,
- wherein:
- a content of the young barley grass ground product in the composition is 1 to 100% by mass,
- the composition comprises 1 to 70% by mass of dietary fiber derived from young barley grass in terms of dry mass, and
- the composition is a powdered beverage.
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