Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd.

Nippon Beet Sugar Mfg., Co., Ltd.

Koji Sayama

Mamoru Tomita

Toshio Ohashi

Hirotoshi Hayasawa

Mitsunori Takase

Tsutomu Aritsuka

Hiroto Kikuchi

Hirohiko Nakamura

Takashi Kanno

A growth promoting composition which significantly grows and does not produce any side effect such as diarrhea, and a blend comprising the above composition and other edible ingredients, and the composition comprises at least one oligosaccharide selected among lactulose, fructo-oligosaccharide, and galacto-oligosaccharide, and raffinose as the active ingredients.

Lactobacillus bifidus growth promoting composition and use thereof

A method for recovering amino acids, which comprises supplying a mixed solution containing inorganic acid salts, amino acids and non-electrolytes such as saccharides to a first-step resin layer comprising an Na type or K type strongly acidic ion exchange resin; separating an effluent into at least a first fraction containing coloring matters, acidic amino acids and ashes, a second fraction containing neutral amino acids and saccharides, and a third fraction containing betaines; supplying the second fraction to a second-step resin layer comprising at least one resin selected from the group consisting of NH type, Ca type and Mg type strongly acidic ion exchange resins, and optionally further supplying it to a third-step resin layer comprising an Mg type or Ca type strongly acidic ion exchange resin different from the resin of the second-step resin layer, thereby recovering various kinds of amino acids contained in an effluent.

Method for recovering amino acids

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Hokkaido, Japan

Koji Sayama