Abstract: An emulsified gel containing a heat-denatured vegetable protein, water, and a fat or oil, where a content of the heat-denatured vegetable protein relative to a content of the fat or oil is 0.1 to 6% by mass; a method for producing an emulsified gel including the steps of: preparing an ungelled emulsion comprising a denatured vegetable protein, water, and a fat or oil; and heating the ungelled emulsion at a heating temperature of 60 to 100° C. to prepare an emulsified gel and/or emulsified gel precursor; a processed meat-like food product contains a textured vegetable protein and the emulsified gel; and a method for producing a processed meat-like food product including the step of: mixing the textured vegetable protein and the emulsified gel to prepare a mixture; are provided.

Abstract: A method for producing a processed meat-like food product, method for improving juiciness of a processed meat-like food product, or method for preventing breakage of an emulsified gel during mixing includes the step of mixing a textured vegetable protein and a frozen product of an emulsified gel comprising a vegetable protein, water, and a fat or oil to prepare a mixture. A frozen emulsified gel contains a vegetable protein, water, and a fat or oil, wherein a content of the vegetable protein relative to a content of the fat or oil is 0.1 to 6% by mass. A processed meat-like food product contains a textured vegetable protein and the frozen emulsified gel.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for treating or preventing an oxidative stress-related disorder, the method comprising administering an effective amount of a very-long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid (VLC-PUFA), a pharmaceutically functional derivative thereof or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof to a subject in need of the treatment or prevention.

Abstract: In the specification, a method for purifying a compound by column chromatography, and a method for optimizing the symmetry factor and theoretical plate number by allowing the slurry to settle and reducing the sedimentation volume of the slurry. A compound purified by such method is also provided.

Abstract: Provided is a free-polyunsaturated-fatty-acid-containing composition that has a total metal content of 0.1 ppm or less and that comprises at least one free polyunsaturated fatty acid having 20 or more carbon atoms, in an amount that is at least 80.0% of the amount of fatty acids in the composition; and a method for manufacturing a free-polyunsaturated-fatty-acid-containing composition, comprising: providing a raw material composition containing at least one polyunsaturated fatty acid having 20 or more carbon atoms; performing a hydrolysis treatment on a reaction solution prepared by combining the provided raw material composition, a lower alcohol, water having a total metal content of 0.01 ppm or less, and an alkali catalyst; and limiting the contact between the reaction composition and the metal after the hydrolysis treatment so that the product T [cm2×days] of the contact surface area [cm2] per 1 g and the contact time [days] between the composition and the metal is 100 or less.

Abstract: Packaged fish meat, including: frozen minced fish meat and gas containing oxygen at 22% by volume or more as contents; frozen minced fish meat, wherein the amount of agglutinated frozen minced fish meat based on the entire amount of the frozen minced fish meat is 9.5% by mass or less; or a method for preventing the agglutination of frozen minced fish meat, wherein frozen minced fish meat is made to coexist with gas containing oxygen at 22% by volume or more.

Abstract: Provided is a free-polyunsaturated-fatty-acid-containing composition that has a total metal content of 0.1 ppm or less and that comprises at least one free polyunsaturated fatty acid having 20 or more carbon atoms, in an amount that is at least 80.0% of the amount of fatty acids in the composition; and a method for manufacturing a free-polyunsaturated-fatty-acid-containing composition, comprising: providing a raw material composition containing at least one polyunsaturated fatty acid having 20 or more carbon atoms; performing a hydrolysis treatment on a reaction solution prepared by combining the provided raw material composition, a lower alcohol, water having a total metal content of 0.01 ppm or less, and an alkali catalyst; and limiting the contact between the reaction composition and the metal after the hydrolysis treatment so that the product T [cm2×days] of the contact surface area [cm2] per 1 g and the contact time [days] between the composition and the metal is 100 or less.

Abstract: A cephalopod breeding method, which is for breeding cephalopod larvae in a breeding water tank, comprises, during the floating breeding period of the cephalopod larvae, forming a high concentration area where the salinity concentration is higher compared to seawater at the bottom of the breeding water tank and, after the passage of a predetermined time from the formation of the high concentration area, removing the high concentration area.

Abstract: This cephalopod breeding method is a method for breeding cephalopod larvae in a rearing tank having a water changing means. The method includes a water-changing period during which the ratio of water changed by the water-changing means per day is 200% or more relative to the quantity of water in the rearing tank in a floating breeding period of the cephalopod larvae.

Abstract: Provided is a method for rearing Artemias in a feeding water tank, wherein a feed containing a mollusk-derived feed is poured into the feeding water tank. Provided is a feed for Artemia that contains a mollusk-derived feed. Provided is an Artemia which satisfies at least one of the following requirements at 6 days of age: body width being greater than 0.183 mm; body height being greater than 0.179 mm; and volume greater than 0.099 mm3.

Abstract: The present disclosure is: a free polyunsaturated fatty acid-containing composition, which comprises at least one free polyunsaturated fatty acid having 20 or more carbon atoms, the content being at least 80.0% of the fatty acids in the composition, and satisfies at least one selected from a group consisting of conditions (1) and (2): (1) the content of conjugated unsaturated fatty acid is 1.0% or less of the fatty acids in the composition, and (2) the Gardner color is less than 3+; and a manufacturing method for the free polyunsaturated fatty acid-containing composition comprising the preparation of a raw material composition containing at least one polyunsaturated fatty acid having 20 or more carbon atoms, and hydrolysis of a reaction solution containing the prepared raw material composition, a lower alcohol, water and an alkali catalyst at a temperature of 10° C. or lower.

Abstract: A production method for a textured vegetable protein composite food, where the production method enables production of a textured vegetable protein composite food with improved texture; and a textured vegetable protein composite food with improved texture. The production method for a textured vegetable protein composite food, which contains a water-absorbable polysaccharide thickener and a water-absorbable textured vegetable protein, includes: (1) a step of allowing the water-absorbable polysaccharide thickener to absorb water by adding water thereto in the absence of the water-absorbable textured vegetable protein to give a hydrated polysaccharide thickener; and (2) a step of adding the water-absorbable textured vegetable protein to the hydrated polysaccharide thickener and mixing together to give a textured vegetable protein composite, where, in the step (1), 80% by mass or more of water to be used in the step (1) is added to 1 kg or more of the water-absorbable polysaccharide thickener within 30 seconds.

Abstract: PROBLEM To provide a composition comprising highly enriched PUFA or its alkyl esters while containing fatty acid esters of 3-MCPD at adequately low concentrations and to provide an efficient method for producing the composition. MEANS FOR SOLVING A composition that contains fatty acids or fatty acid alkyl esters as its major component, the composition containing highly unsaturated fatty acid or alkyl ester thereof, wherein the proportion of the highly unsaturated fatty acid in the constituent fatty acids of the composition is 50 area % or more and wherein the concentration of 3-MCPD as found upon analyzing the composition by American Oil Chemists' Society official method Cd 29b-13 assay A is less than 1.80 ppm.

Abstract: The present disclosure is: a free polyunsaturated fatty acid-containing composition, which comprises at least one free polyunsaturated fatty acid having 20 or more carbon atoms, the content being at least 80.0% of the fatty acids in the composition, and satisfies at least one selected from a group consisting of conditions (1) and (2): (1) the content of conjugated unsaturated fatty acid is 1.0% or less of the fatty acids in the composition, and (2) the Gardner color is less than 3+; and a manufacturing method for the free polyunsaturated fatty acid-containing composition comprising the preparation of a raw material composition containing at least one polyunsaturated fatty acid having 20 or more carbon atoms, and hydrolysis of a reaction solution containing the prepared raw material composition, a lower alcohol, water and an alkali catalyst at a temperature of 10° C. or lower.

Abstract: To provide a microbial oil that contains eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) at a high concentration and can effectively exert the function of EPA. A microbial oil containing EPA and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), in which the content of EPA is 38% by area or greater relative to the total fatty acids and which has at least one fatty acid ratio selected from the group consisting of (a) to (c): (a) a ratio of the content of EPA to the content of DHA of 1.7 or more; (b) a ratio of the content of fatty acid(s) having 18 carbon atoms to the content of fatty acid(s) having 20 carbon atoms of 0.3 or less; and (c) a ratio of the content of fatty acid(s) having 18 carbon atoms to the content of fatty acid(s) having 22 carbon atoms of 1.5 or less.

Abstract: In a production method for a protein processed food, a tubular body having an outlet for a protein processed food at one end, and a core material arranged inside the tubular body and extending to at least the outlet along an axial direction of the tubular body are used, a mixture is supplied between the tubular body and the core material while the core material is rotated around the axial direction of the tubular body, the mixture is extruded toward the outlet, and at a side further upstream than the outlet, the mixture is internally heated and coagulated, and the coagulated hollow protein processed food is discharged from the outlet.

Abstract: In the specification, a method for purifying a compound by column chromatography, and a method for optimizing the symmetry factor and theoretical plate number by allowing the slurry to settle and reducing the sedimentation volume of the slurry. A compound purified by such method is also provided.

Abstract: PROBLEM To provide a composition comprising highly enriched PUFA or its alkyl esters while containing fatty acid esters of 3-MCPD at adequately low concentrations and to provide an efficient method for producing the composition. MEANS FOR SOLVING A composition that contains fatty acids or fatty acid alkyl esters as its major component, the composition containing highly unsaturated fatty acid or alkyl ester thereof, wherein the proportion of the highly unsaturated fatty acid in the constituent fatty acids of the composition is 50 area % or more and wherein the concentration of 3-MCPD as found upon analyzing the composition by American Oil Chemists' Society official method Cd 29b-13 assay A is less than 1.80 ppm.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide very long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids and/or derivatives thereof. Substance production of very long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids and/or derivatives thereof has been possible by the conventional technology. However, concentrations of the produced substances have been low. The substance production of very long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids and/or derivatives thereof has been possible. However, the substances produced cannot be obtained in sufficient concentrations and cannot be used as compositions. The present invention provides very long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids and/or derivatives thereof with increased concentrations. Moreover, the object of the present invention is to provide a composition comprising very long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids and/or derivatives thereof.

Abstract: A processed meat-like food containing a connective tissue-like texture imparting agent and a textured vegetable protein, and having texture closer to processed meat foods produced from meat as a main raw material; a connective tissue-like texture imparting agent capable of imparting to a processed meat-like food a texture closer to processed meat foods produced from meat as a main raw material; a method for texture improvement of a processed meat-like food containing a textured vegetable protein, where a connective tissue-like texture imparting agent is added, the method approximating the texture of a processed meat-like food to processed meat foods produced from meat as a main raw material; and a production method for a processed meat-like food, including mixing a connective tissue-like texture imparting agent and a textured vegetable protein, the method resulting in a processed meat-like food having texture closer to those of processed meat foods produced from meat.