Pokka Corporation

Hiroaki Mieda

Yoshiaki Miyake

Osamu Mutsushika

Yoji Tamaki

Masanori Hiramitsu

Kanefumi Yamamoto

A process for producing a food material having a high concentration of eriocitrin, which comprises extracting a juice, a peel and a squeezed juice refuse of a citrus fruit with a polar solvent, applying the extract to a synthetic adsorption resin, and separating and recovering the food material having the high concentration of eriocitrin using an organic solvent such as hydrous alcohol. A food material having a high concentration eriocitrin as an antioxidant ingredient can industrially be produced quite efficiently without entraining an ingredient of a bitter taste, and drink and food having a high antioxidant effect can be produced.

Food material containing antioxidant ingredient derived from citrus fruits

Citrus fruit juice beverages with minimized bitterness can be obtained by treating citrus fruit juice under a pressure of at least 2000 Kg/cm.sup.2.

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Aichi-ken, Japan

Hiroaki Mieda