Ajinomoto Co., Ltd.

Amano Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

J-Oil Mills, Inc.

The Japanese Research & Development Association for Bioreactor System in

Narihide Matsuzaki

Shotaro Yamaguchi

Tamio Mase

Jun Kurashige

Akihiro Nakatani

Ikukazu Tashima

Akira Nishioka

Yuko Miyake

Tasuku Oshima

The purpose of the present invention is to provide refined sesame oil comprising a lot of lignans that have various excellent physiological properties from sesame seeds having a high lignan content. The present invention relates to refined sesame oil having a sesamin content of 1% by weight or more and showing no bitterness; a method for the production of refined sesame oil comprising using active carbon as an absorbent in a bleaching step; a method for the production of refined sesame oil comprising controlling a bleaching temperature in a range of from 5 to 70&#xb0; C. in a bleaching step with the use of activated clay active as an absorbent; and a method for the production of refined sesame oil comprising controlling a bleaching temperature in a range of from 5 to 70&#xb0; C. in a bleaching step with the use of activated clay of from 0.1 to 3% by weight active as an absorbent.

Sesame oil and process for producing the same

A process for modifying fats and oils which comprises applying partial glyceride lipase to fats and oils containing partial glycerides and fatty acids to synthesize triglycerides from the partial glycerides by esterification. The lipase is preferably an immobilized lipase and this process is preferably carried out under a water concentration of 1500 ppm or less. By using partial glyceride lipase according to the present invention, there can be obtained modified fats and oils having a low content of diglycerides without changing triglyceride composition.

Process for modifying fats and oils

The present invention relates to a method for reforming fats and oils which comprises treating the fats and oils containing partial glycerides with two or more kinds of lipases which are different in a fatty acid specificity and/or a position specificity in the presence of a small amount of water to obtain fats and oils containing partial glycerides in a low content in a high yield. According to the invention, a reaction rate and a yield are improved.

Method for reforming fats and oils with enzymes

A process of extracting vegetable oil and fat from an oleaginous raw material which comprises the steps of obtaining flakes having a moisture content of from 0.7 to 10 weight % from an oleaginous raw material; contacting the flakes with an ethanol solution containing not less than 90 weight % ethanol at a temperature in the range of from 70.degree. C. to the boiling point of the ethanol solution, thereby obtaining a miscella; cooling the miscella, thereby obtaining vegetable oil or fat and a separate defatted miscella; drying the defatted miscella with a molecular sieve material having a pore size of from 3 .ANG. to 4 .ANG., thereby obtaining a second ethanol solution wherein the second ethanol contains less than 7 weight % water; and using the ethanol solution obtained in the drying step as the ethanol solution of the contacting step in a second extraction.

Process of extracting vegetable oil and fat

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Kawasaki, Japan

Narihide Matsuzaki