Patents Examined by Ketih Hendricks
  • Patent number: 6537597
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a process for producing a sterilized enzymatic decomposition soybean protein with facilitating separation of a precipitate after decomposition of soybean protein with an enzyme, and with improving a yield of the enzymatic decomposition product, thereby minimizing formation of the dregs upon using in drinks and so on. Said process comprises adding a proteolytic enzyme to a soybean protein solution to effect hydrolysis, heating and cooling the hydrolyzation mixture, separating and removing insolubles from the mixture and heat-sterilizing the resultant supernatant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: Fuji Oil Company, Limited
    Inventors: Toshihiro Nakamori, Yoshimi Akasaka, Hirokazu Maeda