Food for prophylaxis or improvement of malnutrition
AssigneeAjinomoto Co., Inc.
InventorsHitoshi MURAKAMI, Masashi HONDA
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Abstract
The present invention aims to provide a food containing, as a main ingredient, a foodstuff produced in developing regions with many malnourished patients, specifically at least one kind of grain selected from the group consisting of soybean, maize and sorghum, which contains sufficient protein/amino acid nutrients, is easy to take even without water, and provides a high improving effect on malnutrition (especially severe acute malnutrition). The present invention relates to a food containing at least one grain selected from the group consisting of soybean, maize and sorghum, lysine or a salt thereof, glutamine or a salt thereof, and methionine or a salt thereof.
Claims19
A food, comprising:
- (A) at least one grain selected from the group consisting of soybean, maize, and sorghum;
- (B) lysine or a salt thereof;
- (C) glutamine or a salt thereof;
- and
- (D) methionine or a salt thereof,
- wherein
- a content of said lysine or a salt thereof is 0.01 to 3 wt % based on the total weight of said food,
- a content of said glutamine or a salt thereof is 0.01 to 3 wt % based on the total weight of said food, and
- a content of said methionine or a salt thereof is 0.001 to 3 wt % based on the total weight of said food.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.