| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a functional food which allows the sufficient and efficient ingestion of nutritional components such as dietary fibers and polyphenols. <P>SOLUTION: A functional food includes powder of at least one of a leaf and stem in Pedaliacec plants. In particular, sesame young leaf is preferably utilized. For instance, the sesame young leaf powder is powdered by cooling, drying and pulverizing sesame young leaf subjected to heat treatment. Food containing the sesame young leaf powder obtained in such a manner sufficiently contains dietary fibers and polyphenols, thereby serving as an excellent functional food. Such a functional food also has an excellent superoxide-eliminating activity useful in prevention of oxygen disorder. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT |
