摘要 |
A fermented extract of Citrus sunki Hort and a method for preparing the same are provided to obtain the extract with various pharmacological effects such as increasing anti-inflammatory activity of macrophage, tumor cell proliferation inhibiting effect and apoptosis inducing effect by fermenting an extract of Citrus sunki Hort with a culture solution of Lactobacillus plantarum and a culture solution of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The method for preparing a fermented extract of Citrus sunki Hort comprises the steps of: (a) after solvent-extracting Citrus sunki Hort powder, filtering it to obtain supernatant and removing solvent from the supernatant, freeze-drying it to obtain an extract of Citrus sunki Hort; (b) after adding water of same amount of the extract and 5% sugar into the extract and adjusting the pH into 7.0, sterilizing it under pressure to prepare a mixture; (c) after mixing Lactobacillus plantarum culture solution and Saccharomyces cerevisiae culture solution with the mixture, inoculating 5% of the mixture based on the total culture medium into the culture medium and adding 3% of molasses thereto, culturing it to obtain a fermented solution; (d) freeze-drying the fermented solution and then pulverizing it to obtain fermented powder; and (e) solvent-extracting the fermented powder. The health functional food comprises the fermented extract of Citrus sunki Hort prepared by the method.
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