Process for manufacturing a health-supplementary food containing aloe as

Abstract

A process for manufacturing a health-supplementary food containing aloe as an active ingredient, including, in the order recited, the steps of washing aloe, fresh leaf vegetables including kale, root vegetables including carrot, and fruit including tomato thoroughly with water; pulverizing from 70 to 85 wt. % of aloe, from 10 to 20 wt. % of leaf vegetables including kale, from 5 to 15 wt. % of root vegetables and fruit including, respectively, carrot and tomato, into pieces having a length of 2 cm or less using a chopper to provide a pulverized mixture; mixing sugar with the pulverized mixture to provide a sugar concentration for the mixture of from 15 to 37.5 Brix; innoculating the mixture with from 2 to 5% by weight of a starter per 100% by weight of total starting materials, the starter having been cultured from a strain of Lactobacillus family grown in an MRS medium, in a fermenter at a temperature ranging from 20.degree. to 35.degree. C.; fermenting the mixture for from 48 to 96 hours, stopping fermentation when the mixture has a pH ranging from 3.2 to 3.7; squeezing the mixture using a press to obtain a fermented liquid, admixing additional sugar with the fermented liquid until homogenized to maintain the sugar concentration at a range of from 50 to 60 Brix; and aging the mixture at room temperature for several months.