Suntory Holdings Limited

Hiroo Matsui

Takako Inui

Daisaku Yonezawa

Mariko Ishimaru

There is a method for producing a hop processed product. The hop processed product is for use in foodstuff for anti-adipocyte differentiation or for antioxidation. It contains 50% by weight or more, preferably 60% by weight or more, and more preferably 70% by weight or more, of hop flowers (E⋅M) showing hues satisfying that a value of a* is less than −0.5 in accordance with a CIE Lab color space, and preferably that a value of h is 90° or more in accordance with a CIE Lch color space. The hop processed product of the present invention has excellent action of anti-adipocyte differentiation or antioxidant action, so that the hop processed product can be expected to have effects in, for example, 'anti-metabolic syndrome,' “anti-aging,” “anti-obesity,” and the like.

Method for producing hop processed product

A method for producing a beer-taste beverage characterized in that the method includes adding a hop selected based on hop plant age; and a method for adjusting aroma and taste of a beer-taste beverage, characterized by the use of a hop selected based on hop plant age. According to the present invention, characteristics of aroma and taste attributable from different hops can be made into different ones by using hops of different plant age. In addition, crops of different hop plant age having their own characteristics are properly blended, whereby a beer-taste beverage having preferred characteristics and intensities of aromas, and taste can be provided.

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Osaka, Japan

Hiroo Matsui