JPH10231496A - Mint composition and its production - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a mint compsn. which contains a spice component and a perfume component and/or a crude drug component and well retains the perfume and flavor of each material by extracting a spice and a perfume plant and/or a crude drug with mint alone. SOLUTION: Mint used is pref. selected from among L-menthol, mentha oil, peppermint oil, and mixtures of two or three of these oils. L-menthol used is pref. a natural L-menthol, a synthetic L-menthol, or their mixture. The wt. ratio of a spice, a perfume plant, or a crude drug to mint of (1:1)-(1:20) is pref. in terms of taste, flavor, and processibility. The extraction temp. of about 50-90 deg.C is pref. in terms of the retention of the perfume component. The perfume plant used may contain a taste component or a medicinal component in addition to its inherent perfume component. Examples of an esp. pref. perfume plant are laurel, sage, thyme and rosemary.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a mint containing a spice component, a fragrance component and / or a crude drug component obtained by extracting a spice, a fragrant plant, a crude drug substance, or a mixture thereof with mint. The present invention relates to a composition and a method for producing the composition.

[0002]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Mints (L-menthol, mint oil and peppermint oil) are used in many toiletry products, pharmaceuticals, foods, tobacco, etc. due to their refreshing and cool feeling, but they are more irritating or Mints with a wide range of aromas and tastes are required.

Conventionally, components have been extracted from spices and aromatic plants with water or an organic solvent such as hexane or ethanol.
Concentrated oleoresin or essential oil obtained by steam distillation of spices or aroma plants is used as a spice component, aroma component, or a crude drug component. When a spice component or a flavor component is extracted with such an organic solvent, (1) a target extract component is not sufficiently extracted, (2) a component that impairs the flavor of a component originally intended to be extracted, or (3) At the time of concentration, there is a problem that an aroma component is scattered and the scent is not good. Further, when the extract extracted with an organic solvent is mixed with mint, that is, menthol, mint oil, peppermint oil or a mixture thereof, insolubles are produced or have a bitter taste, and when used in chewing gum, candy, soft drinks, etc., the flavor is increased. There is a problem that it is not good. Essential oils obtained by steam distillation have limited applications because trace amounts of low-boiling aroma components are scattered and lost, and are extremely expensive. Therefore, there is a demand for cheaper and more flavorful mint, which has aroma of spices and aromatic plants. Until now, menthol or peppermint oil or peppermint oil or a mixture thereof, which directly extracts a flavor component, a taste component or a medicinal component from a spice, a fragrant plant, or a crude drug substance, or a mixture thereof, is still unknown. Not been.

[0004]

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and has as its object to produce spices, fragrant plants and / or crude drug substances, or spice components from mixtures thereof. A mint composition containing a spice component, a fragrance component and / or a crude drug component, obtained by extracting a (taste component), a fragrance component, a crude drug component (a medicinal component), or a mixture thereof with mint, and production thereof It is to provide a method.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a mint composition containing a spice component, a fragrance component and / or a crude drug component. The present invention relates to a mint composition obtained by extraction.

In a preferred embodiment, there is provided a mint composition wherein said mint is selected from the group consisting of L-menthol, mint oil, peppermint oil, and mixtures of two or three thereof.

In a preferred embodiment, there is provided a mint composition wherein the L-menthol is natural L-menthol, synthetic L-menthol, or a mixture thereof.

[0008] In a preferred embodiment, the mint composition is for food addition.

[0009] The present invention relates to a food containing the mint composition.

[0010] In a preferred embodiment, the food is chewing gum.

[0011] In a preferred embodiment, the food is a candy or a starch syrup.

The present invention relates to a fragrance composition containing the mint composition.

[0013] The present invention relates to a medical composition containing the mint composition.

The present invention relates to a mouthwash containing the mint composition.

The present invention relates to a method for producing a mint composition containing a spice component, a fragrance component and / or a crude drug component, which comprises converting a spice, a fragrant plant and / or a crude drug substance or a mixture thereof into mint. A method comprising the step of:

[0016] In a preferred embodiment, the method for producing the mint composition, wherein the mint is selected from the group consisting of L-menthol, mint oil, peppermint oil, and a mixture of two or three thereof. Is provided.

[0017] In a preferred embodiment, there is provided a method for producing the mint composition, wherein the L-menthol is natural L-menthol, synthetic L-menthol, or a mixture thereof.

[0018]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below in detail.

As used herein, the term “spice”
A plant containing a pungent taste component (spice component) or an aroma component, or a fruit, seed, bark, flower, stem, leaf, or root of such a plant. Spices contain a unique taste or aroma component, but may also contain a medicinal component. Particularly preferred spices are black pepper, white pepper, ginger, pepper, wasabi, sansho, mustard, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, clove,
Fennel, star anise, cardamom, allspice, coriander, celery seed, turmeric, cumin, mech, caraway and the like.

The term “fragrant plant” as used herein
Means a plant having an aroma component. The scented plant contains an inherent scent component, but may also include a taste component or a medicinal component. Particularly preferred aromatic plants include laurel, sage, thyme, rosemary, basil, oregano, savory, bergamot, lemon balm, marjoram, parsley, sweet violet, primula, marbasiva,
Saffron and the like.

As used herein, the term "herbal medicine" includes any herbal medicine derived from plants, animals and minerals. Particularly preferred crude drugs include oak, giant gourd, chamomile, liquorice, koujin, psycho, tokkon, rhubarb, goji, ephedra, ephedra, mugwort and musk.

As used herein, the term "mint"
Include L-menthol, peppermint oil, peppermint oil, and mixtures thereof.

The term "menthol" as used herein
Include natural L-menthol (mint), synthetic L-menthol and mixtures thereof.

As used herein, the term "mint oil"
Means an oil obtained by cooling an essential oil obtained by steam-distilling a Japanese-style light load and removing solid matter.

As used herein, the term "peppermint oil" refers to an essential oil obtained by steam distillation of a Western-style package.

The spice component, flavor component and / or
Or a mint composition having a crude drug component, by extracting menthol, mint oil, peppermint oil or a mixture thereof from each of the drug substances as an extraction solvent, and extracting and containing various components without adding other extraction solvents. can get.

The original ingredients of various spices, aromatic plants, crude drugs, etc.
Crushing, chopping or pulverizing shortens the extraction time and improves the extraction rate. Each spice at the time of extraction,
The ratio of the fragrant plant, crude drug, or the like, to mint (eg, menthol or mint oil or peppermint oil or a mixture thereof) can range from 5: 1 to 1: 100 by weight. 1: 1 in terms of flavor and operability
To 1:20 is preferred.

Examples of the extraction method include standing, shaking, stirring and reflux. Extract for 1 to 96 hours, usually 2 to 24 hours. When extracting with solid menthol alone, menthol must be melted and made liquid. Therefore, until the menthol is melted, the temperature is set to the melting point of 43 to 44 ° C or higher. Since the melting point of menthol decreases when extraction proceeds to some extent, the temperature can be set to about 35 ° C. Extraction with mint generally has higher extraction efficiency at higher temperatures. About 40-100
° C., preferably about 50-9 (in terms of retention of fragrance components)
Perform at 0 ° C. In the case of menthol, it is in a liquid state, and in the case of mint oil or peppermint oil, it is filtered after warming or cooling or centrifuging. In this way, clear menthol, peppermint oil, and peppermint oil containing a spice component (taste component), a flavor component, or a medicinal component can be obtained. The same applies to the case where mint is mixed and used.

A mint composition containing an extract component soluble in menthol such as various spices, aroma plants, crude drugs, and the like in menthol, peppermint oil and peppermint oil by such direct extraction, and in which no residual or insoluble matter of other extraction solvents is observed (for example, Menthol or peppermint oil or peppermint oil or mixtures thereof). The mint composition obtained in this way, conventional oleoresin of various spices, extraction oil,
Compared with a mixture with menthol, peppermint oil, peppermint oil or a mixture thereof, the refreshing feeling of menthol, peppermint oil or peppermint oil is emphasized or left, bitterness is further suppressed, and the aroma and flavor of spices, aromatic plants or crude drugs, etc. Satisfactorily, and umami is synergistically derived.

When the spice or fragrant plant to be extracted is for food, a mint composition containing a fragrance component having a synergistic umami can be used for food. In addition, when the aromatic plant to be extracted is used for decoration or aroma therapy, the mint containing the aroma component can be used for decoration, aroma therapy or cosmetic purposes. When the plant to be extracted is for crude drugs, the extract-containing mint can be used for medical purposes.

[0031]

【Example】

Example 1 20 g of natural L-menthol was added to 20 g of black pepper powder, and menthol was melted at 50 ° C., followed by shaking extraction at 50 ° C. for 24 hours. The mixture of the liquid menthol was filtered with a warming filter so as not to harden, and menthol containing a light yellow black pepper extract containing no turbidity was obtained. This was kneaded into a chewing gum base material at 2% (% by weight, the same applies hereinafter). For comparison, black pepper powder was separately extracted with hexane at the same ratio and under the same conditions as in the reflux tube, and the hexane layer was evaporated and concentrated to give the same ratio as that of the original black pepper raw material. Although mixed, slight turbidity was observed. This was kneaded in a chewing gum substrate at 2%. Further, as a control without black pepper, 2% of natural L-menthol was kneaded into the chewing gum base material. Table 1 shows the results of tasting these chewing gums. The chewing gum of the present invention has excellent quality.

[0032]

[Table 1]

(Example 2) Ginger powder, mustard powder, cinnamon powder, nutmeg powder, clove powder, fennel powder, allspice powder, coriander powder and caraway powder were used in place of the black pepper powder in Example 1. Extracted with warm-melted natural menthol in the same manner as in Example 1 and kneaded into a chewing gum base. For comparison, as in Example 1, each spice was extracted with hexane, and the concentrated extract was mixed with natural menthol and kneaded into a chewing gum base material. As a control, only natural menthol was kneaded into the chewing gum base material.

As a result of tasting these chewing gums,
When any spice is directly extracted with natural menthol, there is less pungency and bitterness than when the concentrated solution extracted with hexane is mixed with natural menthol, and the spices of each spice are less than the control of natural menthol alone. It smelled and tasted strong and punchy.

Example 3 80 g of peppermint oil was added to 20 g of basil powder, and the mixture was extracted by shaking at 50 ° C. for 24 hours, and then filtered.
A mint oil containing basil extract in a light green color without turbidity was obtained.
This was kneaded in a 1% chewing gum base material. For comparison, basil powder was extracted with hexane at 50 ° C. for 24 hours in a cooling reflux tube at the same ratio, filtered, and hexane was removed under reduced pressure to obtain a concentrate. 80g of mint oil to this whole amount
Was added and mixed to obtain peppermint oil containing a hexane-extracted basil extract, which was kneaded in a chewing gum base at 1%. In addition, as a control, one in which only mint oil was kneaded at 1% into a chewing gum base material was prepared.

As a result of tasting these chewing gums,
When extracted directly with mint oil, it has less pungency and bitterness than when the concentrated solution extracted with hexane is mixed with mint oil, and has a basil scent and tastes better than a mint oil-only control. It was something with

Example 4 80 g of peppermint oil was added to 20 g of sage powder, rosemary powder and thyme powder, and
After extraction with shaking at 24 ° C. for 24 hours, the extract was filtered to obtain mint oil containing each extract without turbidity. This was kneaded in a 1% chewing gum base material. As a comparison, each powder was extracted with hexane at 50 ° C. for 24 hours with a cooling reflux tube attached at the same ratio. After filtration, hexane was removed under reduced pressure to obtain a concentrate. To each of the concentrates, 80 g of mint oil was added and mixed to obtain mint oil containing a hexane extract, and each was kneaded at 1% in a chewing gum base material. In addition, as a control, one in which only mint oil was kneaded at 1% into a chewing gum base material was prepared.

As a result of tasting these chewing gums,
When extracted directly with peppermint oil, the concentrated extract extracted with hexane has a better aroma and less pungency and bitterness than when it is mixed with peppermint oil. , The taste was good with punch.

(Example 5) Peppermint oil containing each extract was obtained in the same manner as in Example 4 except that peppermint oil was used in place of peppermint oil in Example 4, and peppermint oil containing hexane extract was used as a comparison. Also got. 1% of each of these extract-containing peppermint oils was kneaded into a chewing gum base material in the same manner as in Example 4. Further, as a control, a mixture in which only peppermint oil was kneaded in a 1% chewing gum base material was prepared.

As a result of tasting these chewing gums,
When extracted directly with peppermint oil, the concentrated liquid extracted with hexane has a better aroma and less pungency and bitterness than when it is mixed with peppermint oil. , The taste was good with punch.

Example 6 Various spices were prepared in the same manner as in Example 2 except that syrup was used instead of chewing gum, and the mixing ratio of menthol containing various spice extracts to syrup was 0.5%. A mint-flavored syrup with extract was made. Comparative and control syrups were also prepared using syrups instead of chewing gum, with the mixing ratio of menthol to the syrup being 0.5%. As a result of tasting these starch syrups, those extracted directly with menthol had better aroma and taste, and less bitterness than the comparative starch syrup. In addition, the flavor was better than that of the control menthol-only syrup, and the flavor of peppermint was also emphasized.

Example 7 Preparation of Mouth Cleanser 70 g of peppermint oil was added to 20 g of dried rosemary leaves and 10 g of dried flower chamomile powder, and the mixture was extracted by shaking at 50 ° C. for 24 hours, and then filtered to obtain a turbid light yellow. A peppermint oil containing green chamomile extract and rosemary extract was obtained. Mint water was prepared using the mint oil, and a mouthwash was prepared using the mint water as follows.

5 g of potassium aluminum sulfate was dissolved in purified water to make up to 200 ml. 100 ml of the above extract-containing peppermint water is added thereto, and purified water is added to make the total amount 1000
ml and filtered to obtain a mouthwash. As a comparative example,
Mentha water was prepared using ordinary peppermint oil containing no extract, and a mouthwash was prepared in the same manner as above.

The mouthwash containing these mouthwashes was rinsed, and the use feeling was tested. The use of mint water containing mint oil containing chamomile extract and rosemary extract was more palatable than the comparative example. The refreshing feeling afterwards was excellent.

[0045]

EFFECT OF THE INVENTION A spice, an aromatic plant, or a crude drug substance,
Alternatively, by directly extracting a mixture thereof with mint, a mint composition containing a spice component, a fragrance component and / or a crude drug component and a method for producing the same can be provided.

──────────────────────────────────────────────────の Continued on the front page (51) Int.Cl. ⁶ Identification code FI A23L 1/221 A23L 1/221 CA A A61K 7/00 A61K 7/00 CK 7/16 7/16 7/46 315 7 / 46 315Z C11B 9/02 C11B 9/02 // A61K 31/045 A61K 31/045 35/78 35/78 Q (72) Inventor Yoshiyuki Nagaoka 4-2-2 Nishinomiyahama, Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture Inside Nagaoka Business Co., Ltd.

Claims (13)

[Claims] 1. A mint composition containing a spice component, a fragrance component and / or a crude drug component, wherein the mint composition is obtained by extracting a spice, a fragrant plant, and / or a crude drug substance with only mint. Stuff. 2. The mint composition according to claim 1, wherein the mint is selected from the group consisting of L-menthol, mint oil, peppermint oil, and mixtures of two or three thereof. 3. The L-menthol is natural L-menthol, synthetic L-menthol, or a mixture thereof.
A mint composition according to claim 2. 4. The mint composition according to claim 1, which is used as a food additive. 5. A food containing the mint composition according to claim 1. 6. The food according to claim 5, wherein said food is chewing gum. 7. The food according to claim 5, wherein the food is candy or starch syrup. 8. A fragrance composition containing the mint composition according to claim 1. 9. A medical composition comprising the mint composition according to claim 1. 10. A mouthwash containing the mint composition according to claim 1. 11. A method for producing a mint composition containing a spice component, a fragrance component and / or a crude drug component, wherein the spice, a fragrant plant and / or a crude drug substance, or a mixture thereof is prepared using only mint. A method comprising the step of extracting. 12. The method for producing a mint composition according to claim 11, wherein the mint is selected from the group consisting of L-menthol, mint oil, peppermint oil, and a mixture of two or three thereof. . 13. The L-menthol is natural L-menthol, synthetic L-menthol, or a mixture thereof.
A method for producing the mint composition according to claim 12.