Method of manufacturing plant finished product
AssigneeSuntory Holdings Limited
InventorsNorihiko Kageyama, Koichi Nakahara, Takako Inui, Seisuke Takaoka, Kenzo Nagami
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Abstract
A method of manufacturing a plant finished product, comprising the step of processing a plant or a processed material thereof with high-temperature and high-pressure liquid, gas, or fluid.
Claims15
A method of manufacturing a processed plant selected from the group consisting of processed malt, processed grain, processed tea leaf, processed tea stem, processed coffee bean, processed bean, and processed wood, which contains an increased amount of vanillin as compared to before the processing,
- comprising the step of processing a lignin-containing plant selected from the group consisting of malt, grain, tea leaf, tea stem, coffee bean, bean, and wood, or the processed material thereof as a raw material with a high-temperature and high-pressure gas comprising water vapor and having a temperature of about 140 to 250° C. and a pressure of about 0.25 to 4.5 MPa, under conditions where an oxygen concentration is about 0 to 1 μg/mL
- to increase the amount of vanillin contained in the lignin-containing plant or the processed material thereof.
A method for increasing vanillin contained in a plant selected from the group consisting of malt, grain, tea leaf, tea stem, coffee bean, bean, and wood, or processed material thereof, comprising processing the lignin-containing plant selected from the group consisting of malt, grain, tea leaf, tea stem, coffee bean, bean, and wood, or a processed material thereof with high-temperature and high-pressure gas comprising water vapor and having a temperature of about 140 to 250° C. and a pressure of about 0.25 to 4.5 MPa, under conditions where an oxygen concentration is about 0 to 1 μg/mL.
A method of manufacturing a processed plant selected from the group consisting of processed malt, processed malt husk, processed rice seed, processed white oak, processed bamboo, processed straw, processed barley, and processed cherry wood, which contains an increased amount of vanillin as compared to before the processing,
- comprising the step of processing a lignin-containing plant selected from the group consisting of malt, malt husk, rice seed, white oak, bamboo, straw, barley, and cherry wood, or a processed material thereof for about 10 to 1,200 seconds with high-temperature and high-pressure gas comprising water vapor and having a temperature of about 140 to 250° C. and a pressure of about 0.25 to 4.5 MPa under conditions where an oxygen concentration is about 0 to 1 μg/mL to produce the processed.
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