Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd.

Yoko Akazome

Hitoshi Saito

Seiichi Shimamura

Yoshitaka Tamura

Hiroshi Miyakawa

Hiroshi Ochi

Yasushi Kawaguchi

Naoko Isomura

Mihoko Kawamoto

A method for producing a peptide mixture from a starting protein by (1) adding at least one protease to an aqueous solution of at least one starting protein to hydrolyse the starting protein, (2) measuring the amount of a free amino acid selected from the group consisting of lysine, phenylalanine, leucine and arginine produced during the hydrolysis of the starting protein, (3) calculating the amount of the free amino acid with respect to the total amount of amino acid contained in the starting protein, and (4) terminating the hydrolysis when the calculated amount of the free amino acid with respect to the total amount of the amino acid contained in the starting protein falls within a predetermined range. The inventive method provides a starting protein hydrolysate of uniform and consistent quality.

Peptide mixture and products thereof

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yoko Akazome