Kagome Kabushiki Kaisha

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Kagome Co., Ltd.

Hideki Sakamoto

Kenji Okamoto

Yukio Ishiguro

Hirokazu Kawagishi

Fumihiro Ojima

Takamitsu Okamoto

Kohei Kodaira

Youji Sonoda

Takeshi Fukuda

Naoto Takahashi

Tetsuya Yokota

Kunihiko Nagai

Masaru Koguchi

Hiroyuki Tanaka

In a monocrystal producing device using a pulling-down method, a raw material melt is continuously supplied into a crucible to grow a crystal by supplying a powdery raw material onto a premelt plate inside an electric furnace with a powdery raw material supplying device and melting the powdery raw material on the premelt plate to generate the raw material melt and causing this raw material melt to drop out inside the crucible A dry air is introduced into the powdery raw material inside the powdery raw material tank to prevent moisture of the raw material powder A transferring tube for transferring the raw material is cooled to prevent the filling in the transferring tube based on melting of the powdery raw material This makes it possible to produce a monocrystal having a stable chemical composition, a large diameter, and a long size at a low price.

Apparatus and method for manufacturing monocrystals

To provide a water-dispersible carotenoid pigment preparation which can be added to various aqueous compositions with retaining dispersion stability excellent in a wide temperature range, particularly even in a low temperature range, a carotenoid-containing aqueous composition comprising a carotenoid pigment with retaining its dispersion stability in a wide temperature range, and a method of stabilizing a dispersion state of a carotenoid pigment in an aqueous composition in a wide temperature range, a dispersion state of the carotenoid pigment in the aqueous composition is stabilized by adding the carotenoid pigment, the dispersion stability containing the soybean extract fiber as an effective ingredient, and optionally tomato juice to the aqueous composition, and the water-dispersible carotenoid pigment preparation is prepared by blending the carotenoid pigment, and the dispersion stability containing the soybean extract fiber as an effective ingredient.

Water-dispersible carotenoid pigment preparation

A production stimulator of nerve growth factor contains a new cyathane derivative of the form ##STR1## where R is either CHO or CH.sub.2 OH.

Production stimulators of nerve growth factors comprising cyathane

New indene derivative, obtainable from etiolated seedlings of Adlay and shown by Formulas (1) and (2) given below, have antimicrobial effects and can serve as effective components of antimicrobial agents: ##STR1##

Indene derivatives and antimicrobial agents containing same

New cyathane derivatives shown by Formula (1) or (2) given below have the effect of stimulating production of nerve growth factors and antimicrobial effects: ##STR1## where R is either CHO or CH.sub.2 OH.

Cyathane derivatives and antimicrobial agents containing same

Beverages are produced by adding Lactobacillus bulgaricus and/or lactobacillus helveticus to a processed tomato product in admixture with a milk product for lactic acid fermentation, or by adding such bacterial cells and Streptococcus thermophilus to a processed tomato product in admixture with a milk product with its pH adjusted within a specified range.

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Tochigi, Japan

Hideki Sakamoto