Nippon Beet Sugar Manufacturing., Co., Ltd.

T. Hasegawa Co., Ltd.

Nippon Tensaiseito Kabushiki Kaisha

Taizo Nagura

Tsutomu Aritsuka

Hiroto Kikuchi

Norimitsu Takagi

Katsuya Honjyo

Tadashi Yoshimoto

Natsumi Suzuki

Sechiko Takeuchi

Michio Matsuda

Keisuke Takahashi

Teruhisa Ohashi

Tomohiro Hosogai

Kouji Sayama

Disclosed herein is a pulverulent ceramide producing method that enables easily and efficiently extracting and separating ceramide from sugar beet pulp, and efficiently pulverizing the ceramide by spray drying. The pulverulent ceramide can be efficiently obtained by a process that includes concentrating, with and/or without adding water, a sugar beet pulp ethanol extract obtained by extraction of a sugar beet pulp (for example, such as a beet fiber) with ethanol, adding pectinase to the resulting concentrate and performing an enzymatic reaction, performing emulsification after inactivating the enzyme, and pulverizing the resulting emulsion using spray drying.

Method for producing pulverulent ceramide

A process for producing the crystals of difructose dianhydride III (DFA III), namely a indigestible disaccharide where two fructose molecules are bonded to each other at positions 1, 2' and 2,3&#x2032; (di-D-fructofuranose-1,2&#x2032;:2,3&#x2032;-dianhydride), where solutions containing DFA III are adjusted to and/or maintained at pH 5 or more, preferably pH 5 to 8, and more preferably 6 to 8. DFA III can be produced industrially without lowering the crystal yield even when the crystallization thereof is done in a recycling system; additionally by adjusting the total fructose content in mother solutions for (crude) crystallization to 5% or less per a solid content basis and adjusting the fructose content to 1% or less, DFA III can more effectively be produced.

Process for producing difructose dianhydride III crystals

The invention provides a process for producing the crystals of difructose dianhydride III (DFA III), namely a indigestible disaccharide where two fructose molecules are bonded to each other at positions 1,2' and 2,3&#x2032; (di-D-fructofuranose-1,2&#x2032;,2,3&#x2032;-dianhydride), where solutions containing DFA III are adjusted to and/or maintained at pH 5 or more, preferably pH 5 to 8, and more preferably 6 to 8. In accordance with the invention, DFA III can be produced industrially without lowering the crystal yield even when the crystallization thereof is done in a recycling system; additionally by adjusting the total fructose content in mother solutions for (crude) crystallization to 5% or less per a solid content basis and adjusting the fructose content to 1% or less, DFA III can more effectively be produced.

The present invention relates to an anti-atopic dermatitis composition containing raffinose as the effective ingredient that can be satisfactorily administered to babies and infants for a long term.

Anti-atopic dermatitis composition

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