Colored food
AssigneeSuntory Holdings Limited
InventorsNorihiko KAGEYAMA, Takahiro OHIRO
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Abstract
The present invention aims to provide colored foods that retain their inherent good flavors and which yet feature suppressed fading of dyes. Provided are colored foods that contain rosmarinic acid and which are reduced in the contents of luteolin-3′-glucuronide, carnosic acid, and carnosol.
Claims22
A colored food that contains rosmarinic acid and a dye component and in which the ratio in weight concentration of luteolin-3′-glucuronide to rosmarinic acid is 0.5 or less.
A colored food that contains rosmarinic acid and a dye component and in which the content of rosmarinic acid is from 3 ppm to 1000 ppm and the content of luteolin-3′-glucuronide is 12 ppm or less.
A colored food that contains a rosemary extract and a dye component, wherein the rosemary extract has been obtained by a method comprising the steps of:
- immersing a plant body of rosemary in an aqueous solution containing 3 vol % to 60 vol % of ethanol and storing the aqueous solution at ordinary temperature for half a day to 30 days;
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- removing the plant body of rosemary from the stored aqueous ethanol solution to obtain the supernatant of the aqueous ethanol solution.
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