Emil Flachsmann Ag

Givaudan Corporation

Emil Flachsman Ag

Rudolf Steiner

Mathias-Heinrich Kreuter

Victor Krasnobajew

Matthias Heinrich Kreuter

Alfred Keller

Renato Colombi

Matthias-H Kreuter

Juan-Ramon Mor

Hans J Honerlagen

A stable, homogeneous extract of plants or plant parts prepared by a process comprising: (a) mixing plants or plant parts charged in a fresh and/or dried state with at least one solvent and at least one agent and extracting the plants or plant parts with the solvent and agent, and thereafter filtering insoluble compounds to obtain a filtrate; or (b) mixing and extracting plants or parts thereof charged in a fresh and/or dried state with at least one solvent, thereafter filtering insoluble compounds therefrom, and thereafter mixing with at least one agent to obtain a filtrate; wherein the filtrate is substantially free of secondary reaction products and contains a native compound mixture. The agent: (i) increases the solubility of at least one extracted compound contained in the filtrate; (ii) increases the viscosity of the filtrate in the presence of the solvent(s); (iii) decreases the steam pressure of volatile extracted compounds contained in the filtrate; (iv) prevents or reduces the chemical and/or enzymatic reactions between one or more extracted compounds contained in the filtrate; (v) prevents or reduces the sedimentation and/or flotation of extracted compounds contained in the filtrate when the filtrate is in liquid or semisolid form or is dissolved and/or suspended and/or emulsified in at least one solvent; and (vi) increases the stability and/or homogeneity of at least one extracted compounds contained in the filtrate.

Stable, homogeneous, extract free or nearly free form secondary reaction products

A process for the preparation of a stable, homogenous extract of plants or plant parts is disclosed. The process comprises mixing and extracting the plants or plant parts charged in a fresh and/or dried state with at least one solvent and at least one agent (having various disclosed properties), then filtering insoluble compounds to obtain a filtrate which is substantially free of secondary reaction products and contains a native compound mixture. The filtrate is concentrated to a spissum extract and the pressure used for the concentration is adjusted according to the vapor pressure of the solvent(s).

Process for the preparation of a stable, homogeneous, extract free or nearly free from secondary reaction products

A process for the removal of undesired lipophilic contaminations and/or residues, which are contained in beverages or in vegetable preparations. The process comprises a first step in which a beverage or vegetable preparation is mixed with a lipophilic phase such that the contaminations and/or residues to be removed are dissolved in the lipophilic phase and are concentrated therein nearly quantitatively. In a second step, the lipophilic phase, which contains the contaminations and/or residues, is separated from the beverage or vegetable preparation. Finally, the purified beverage or vegetable preparation is obtained.

Process for the removal of undesired lipophilic contaminations and/or

Process for the removal of undesired contaminations and/or residues

Pesticide-poor concentrates of active components of plants are obtained in that in a first step plants or parts thereof, which may be charged in fresh or dried state, are extracted with at least one polar solvent at a measured pH-value in the range from 3.2 to 9.8 in such a way, that in the obtained primary extract are contained mainly the desired plant components, accompanied by undesired plant components, accompanying substances and pesticides, in a second step said primary extract is contacted with adsorber resin(s) in such a way, that on one hand the desired plant components are adsorbed thereon, and on the other hand the solution with the undesired plant components, the accompanying substances and pesticides are separated from the charged resin, in a third step the desired plant components are desorbed from said resin with at least one solvent, and in a fourth step the solvent(s) is (are) removed either partially or completely, and by this way a concentrate of active components is obtained. These concentrates of active components may be used in products of the pharma, cosmetic and food industry.

Process for the preparation of pesticide-poor concentrates of active

A partial extract containing the volatile in steam components and further lipophilic components of medical plants and/or spice plants or parts thereof, which may be charged in fresh or dried state, is obtained by

Process for preparing a partial extract containing the volatile in steam

A process for the manufacture of coffee flavoring substances is described; this process comprises enzymatically proteolyzing soya meal, heating the proteolyzate and isolating the resulting water-soluble material from the reaction mixture. Furthermore, there are described: flavoring substance compositions which contain these novel coffee flavoring substances, foodstuffs and semi-luxury consumable which contain such coffee flavoring substances or flavoring substance compositions, and the use of the novel flavoring substance compositions or coffee flavoring substances for the flavoring of foodstuffs and semi-luxury consumables or as coffee substitutes.

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