# US 7,407,680 B2 · Method for manufacturing vegetable juice and the like with decreased nitrate ions

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- Number: US 7,407,680 B2
- Document ID: US7407680B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 10/941,109
- Filed: 2004-09-15
- Published: 2005-04-07
- Granted: 2008-08-05
- Earliest claimed: 2003-10-01
- Assignees: Ito En, Ltd.
- Inventors: Takashi Sato; Yasuhiko Ikegawa; Takanobu Takihara
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US7407680B2

## CPC

- A23L 2/04: Extraction of juices (machines or apparatus for extracting juice A23N1/00, A47J19/00)
- A23N 1/02: combined with disintegrating or cutting
- A23N 12/04: for blanching
- A23L: FOODS, FOODSTUFFS OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PREPARATION OR TREATMENT THEREOF (preservation thereof A23B)
- A23N: MACHINES OR APPARATUS FOR TREATING HARVESTED FRUIT, VEGETABLES OR FLOWER BULBS IN BULK, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PEELING VEGETABLES OR FRUIT IN BULK; APPARATUS FOR PREPARING ANIMAL FEEDING- STUFFS (machines for cutting straw or fodder A01F29/00; disintegrating, e.g. shredding, B02C; severing, e.g. cutting, splitting, slicing B26B, B26D)

## Abstract

A carrot is sliced in the longitudinal direction in such a way that the slice surface passes through the core portion, the sliced carrot fragment is blanched and the blanched carrot fragment is extracted to obtain a vegetable extract, so as to manufacture a vegetable extract. By slicing the carrot in the longitudinal direction so as to pass through the core portion, a larger area of the core portion towards which the presence of nitrate ions is biased can be exposed, the contact area between the core portion and the blanching water can be increased and more nitrate ions can be eluted and removed at blanching time.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method for manufacturing a carrot extract with decreased nitrate ion concentration, comprising:
slicing a carrot in the longitudinal in such a way that an incision is practiced so as to penetrate inside but not through the core portion,
blanching the carrot in which the incision was practiced, and
subjecting the blanched carrot to extraction to obtain a carrot extract.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

A method for manufacturing a vegetable juice with decreased nitrate ion concentration characterized by the mixing of the carrot extract obtained in claim 1 as a juice ingredient.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

A method for manufacturing a carrot extract concentrate with decreased nitrate ion concentration characterized by concentrating the carrot extract obtained in claim 1.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

A method for manufacturing a vegetable juice with decreased nitrate ion concentration characterized by the mixing of the carrot extract concentrate obtained in claim 3 as a juice ingredient.