摘要 |
PURPOSE:To obtain a preventive and therapeutic agent for obesity from safe and inexpensive rice being completely safe even by habitual use. CONSTITUTION:This preventive and therapeutic agent for obesity contains either one of the followings (1)-(5) as it is: (1) a ground material of germinated rice, (2) an extract of rice or germinated rice, (3) a material obtained by decomposing a hydrolyzate of rice or germinated rice with an enzyme or treating the hydrolyzate with KOJI, (4) a material obtained, in extracting rice or germinated rice, by decomposing the rice or germinated rice with an enzyme or treating with Aspergillus oryzal (KOJI) before, during or after the extraction or (5) a material obtained by subjecting the extract of the rice or germinated rice, the decomposed material with an enzyme or the treated material with KOJI to alcohol fermentation or organic acid fermentation. |