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US 6,642,202 B2Granted
Egg having active oxygen eliminating ability and method of producing same
AssigneeNosan Corporation
InventorsKunitoshi Sekimoto, Akiko Matsuki, Ayuko Kashimori
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Abstract
The object of the present invention is to allow an egg originally having almost no active oxygen eliminating ability, to strongly possess an active oxygen eliminating ability. It was found that an egg containing a high level of iodine (4.2 ppm or more) has an ability to eliminate active oxygen, which acts harmfully on the human body.
Claims2
A method of eliminating active oxygen comprising:
- providing to a human subject an avian egg having 4.2 ppm or more iodine to eliminate active oxygen from the human body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.