Kikkoman Corporation

Jun Yamakoshi

Shigehiro Kataoka

Yukihiko Iwai

Akio Obata

Mamoru Kikuchi

Toshiaki Ariga

Makoto Saito

Koichiro Tobe

Tatuo Manaka

Hiroharu Ishikawa

Toru Izumi

Tsutomu Sasaki

Kenji Mori

Nobuyuki Yamaji

Takeharu Nakahara

Tetsuya Oguma

Satoshi Fukuda

Katsumi Yuasa

Norikazu Fujii

Hitomi Aota

Hiroshi Hosoyama

Kohsuke Matsumoto

Takanao Matsudo

A low common salt soy sauce, which has good flavor, significantly suppresses elevation of blood pressure, prevents cardiac hypertrophy, and is also available as special nutritious food, is obtained. 1.0% to 10.0% by weight of potassium chloride and 0.1% to 5.0% by weight of &#x3b3;-aminobutyric acid are added to a reduced common salt soy sauce, so as to obtain a low common salt soy sauce of issue. Otherwise, a KCl-containing low common slat soy sauce is obtained by: (1) a common production method of soy sauce, in which a mixed solution consisting of KCl and common salt is used as mother water; (2) a method of subjecting a soy sauce obtained using saline solution as mother water to electrodialysis, a membrane treatment, or the like, so as to eliminate common salt from the above soy sauce, and then adding KCl thereto; or other methods. Thereafter, &#x3b3;-aminobutyric acid is added to the above KCl-containing low common salt soy sauce, so as to obtain a low common salt soy sauce comprising 0% to 10% by weight of common salt, 1.0% to 10.0% by weight of potassium chloride, and 0.1% to 5.0% by weight of &#x3b3;-aminobutyric acid.

Low-salt soy sauce

An oral deodorant for excreta containing a proanthocyanidin as an active ingredient and a method of reducing the odor of excreta of an object comprising dosing the object with an effective amount of a proanthocyanidin.

Deodorant agents for oral use for discharges and method for relieving odor of discharges

A proanthocyanidin and an isoflavone are incorporated into a food. Compounding of grape seed extract as a proanthocyanidin and soy sauce cake extract as an isoflavone gives an anti-arteriosclerotic composition that is effective at a small intake.

Anti-arteriosclerotic food

A health diet for preventing life-habit diseases (adult diseases) is provided. The health diet is prepared by directly encapsulating or tableting an organic solvent extract of soy sauce cakes or an aqueous alkali extract of a soy sauce oil, or blending the extracts with a diet.

Health diet for preventing diseases caused by life-habit

An agent for the prevention or treatment of cataracts comprising a proanthocyanidin oligomer is provided. The oral administration or application to the eyes of the agent of the invention produces a sufficient preventive or therapeutic effect against cataracts caused by oxidative disorders.

Agent for the prevention or treatment of cataracts

In order to prevent or treat cataract, present invention features 3(2H)-furanone derivatives having 3(2H)-furanone skeleton as a main structure and/or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, pharmaceutical preparations containing the derivatives and/or the salts thereof, treatment methods of cataract, and their use. The 3(2H)-furanone derivatives have excellent effects for the prevention and/or treatment of cataract, for instance, senile cataract caused by oxidation disorder. Particularly, the pharmaceutical preparations have good effect for the prevention and/or treatment of cataract when they are administrated as ophtalmics.

Pharmaceutical preparation for prevention and/or treatment for cataract

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Noda, Japan

Jun Yamakoshi