| 20090053384 | Method for Preparation of Plant Extract - It is intended to develop a technique for producing a water-soluble polyphenol at high purity and with high efficiency in a short time from hop bract or the like which is a by-product in the beer brewing. A method for preparation of a purified plant extract comprising steps of treating a plant extract with a clay mineral such as bentonite and removing any divalent cations from the resulting product; a method for producing a polyphenol comprising steps of passing the purified plant extract through a column to adsorb polyphenols onto the column and passing a solvent though the column to elute a water-soluble polyphenol from the column; and a method for producing a water-soluble hop bract polyphenol comprising steps of adding bentonite to a hop bract extract and allowing the resulting mixture to stand under acidic conditions, performing solid-liquid separation to produce a supernatant, purifying the supernatant through a column to give a pholyphenol-containing fraction, cooling the fraction and allowing the cooled fraction to stand to cause the precipitation of water-insoluble ingredients and performing solid-liquid separation to give the desired water-soluble hop bract polyphenol. | 02-26-2009 |
