Microalgae-containing product and production method therefor
AssigneeOp Bio Factory Co., Ltd.
InventorsAkihiko KANAMOTO, Takeshi FUJIWARA, Takafumi WATANABE
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Abstract
The present invention provides a microalgae product and a production method for the microalgae product. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method for treating microalgae without an increase in pheophorbide. By this method, provided is a safe microalgae product having reduced pheophorbide. Such a microalgae product provides various healthy, nutritional, and/or cosmetic effects. The present invention also provides a culturing device that enables high-concentration culturing with less bacterial contamination, and thereby enables highly useful culturing of microalgae.
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A method for manufacturing a microalgal product, comprising:
- (A) a step of maintaining microalgae under a condition where an amount of stress applied to the microalgae from after culture to step (B) is controlled to a predetermined value or less, wherein the step maintains a density of the microalgae at or below a predetermined value and/or does not concentrate the microalgae by a predetermined factor or greater;
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- (B) a step of subjecting the microalgae to treatment for inactivating a chlorophyllase, and
- wherein the microalgae are microalgae of the class Haptophyceae.
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A microalgal product comprising an algal body of the microalgae of the class Haptophyceae.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.