US 9,040,747 B2 · Method for producing reduced coenzyme Q10, method for stabilizing same, and composition comprising same

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide a substance characterized by ability to reduce oxidized coenzyme Q10 and ability to stabilize reduced coenzyme Q10, which contains nutrients, has a favorable taste, and is excellent in general versatility, and a method for using the same. The present invention relates to a method for producing reduced coenzyme Q10 comprising reducing oxidized coenzyme Q10 with a particular amino acid. The present invention also relates to a method for stabilizing reduced coenzyme Q10 in the presence of a particular amino acid and a composition stabilized by the method.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A method for producing reduced coenzyme Q10 which comprises reducing oxidized coenzyme Q10 at a reaction temperature or 50° C. or more using an amino acid with a side chain containing a functional group comprising a nitrogen atom and/or an oxygen atom, wherein the amino acid is lysine.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

13/501,692Filed 15 Oct 2010

Priority

JP 2009-23975416 Oct 2009

Published

US 2012/0207731 A116 Aug 2012

Granted

26 May 2015

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification17 codes

A23L 33/10
Modifying nutritive qualities of foods; Dietetic products; Preparation or treatment thereof: using additives
A23L 33/175
Amino acids, peptides or proteins: amino acids
A23P 10/30
Shaping or working of foodstuffs characterised by the products: encapsulation of particles, e.g. foodstuff additives
A61K 9/10
Medicinal preparations characterised by special physical form: dispersions; Emulsions

Method for producing reduced coenzyme Q10, method for stabilizing same, and composition comprising same

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Method for producing reduced coenzyme Q10, method for stabilizing same, and composition comprising same

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Abstract

Claims7