Ergothioneine-containing hens egg and method of preparing hens feed for producing same
AssigneesOrigin Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Kabushiki Kaisha Hokken
InventorsKazunari Abe, Toshiaki Ohshima, Rikuo Fukui
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Abstract
To provide a production technique for an edible egg that contains a sufficient amount of ergothioneine by using the biological accumulation of the ergothioneine in eggs, and that has antioxidative activity. This ergothioneine-containing egg is obtained from a hen raised by being fed a hen feed for a prescribed time period, the hen feed being manufactured by manufacturing the ergothioneine-containing extract solution from a waste medium used in the production of edible mushrooms and mixing a prescribed amount of the extract solution into a feed for the hen used generally.
Claims3
A manufacture method of a feed for a laying hen containing ergothioneine comprising
- adding water, hot water, or steam to a waste culture medium used for an edible mushroom production and heating the waste culture medium,
- performing a hot water extract for 30 to 90 minutes after reaching 50° C. to 110° C. to obtain an extract,
- separating a solid as residue from the extracted extract by a compression processing to obtain an extract solution,
- separating and removing moisture from the extract solution to obtain the extract solution containing the ergothioneine which is concentrated to 1/10 to 1/30, and
- mixing the extract solution containing the ergothioneine of 4 to 20% by weight ratio to a compound feed.
A hen's egg comprising an egg white containing ergothioneine 5 to 13 μg/g, and an egg yolk containing ergothioneine 3 to 13 μg/g, and
- wherein a radical scavenging ability per unit weight of the ergothioneine contained in the egg white is 1.4 or more times a radical scavenging ability per unit weight of the ergothioneine contained in the egg yolk.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.