Use of gluten peptides as stimulator of mineral absorption and preventive agent of hyperlipidermia and hypercholesterolemia

摘要

Vegetable peptides, particularly gluten peptides, which have a molecular weight of from 200 to 6000 daltons and which comprise at least 20 mole% or more of acidic amino acids are used in the manufacture of a medicament for stimulating the intestinal absorption of a mineral such as calcium or iron or for preventing or treating hyperlipidemia and hypercholesterolemia. The peptides can be obtained by the enzymatic hydrolysis of a vegetable protein. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the peptides, and a process for producing such compositions, are also described.