Abstract: There is provided a novel ingredient that exhibits an exceptional effect for enhancing muscle using a fatty acid. A composition for muscle enhancement, characterized in that the composition contains, as an active component, at least one selected from the group consisting of C13, C14, or C15 fatty acids and fatty acid esters that include these fatty acids. The fatty acid is preferably at least one selected from tridecanoic acid, tetradecanoic acid, or pentadecanoic acid. The composition for muscle enhancement is suitably used in the form of, inter alia, an oil and fat composition, a food or beverage, a supplement, or an animal feed.

Abstract: To provide an edible ingredient having an exceptional effect for enhancing umami. An umami-enhancing composition having an oxidation treatment product of a palm-based oil and fat as an active ingredient. The umami-enhancing composition can be formulated through a manufacturing method including a step in which a palm-based oil and fat in which the total ?-carotene and ?-carotene content is 30 mass ppm or more and 2000 mass ppm or less is subjected to an oxidation treatment such that the peroxide value reaches 3 or greater and 250 or lower. The umami-enhancing composition is optimally used as a food-product ingredient, etc., for: manufacturing a seasoning, an extract, or an oil and fat composition for cooking with heat; or enhancing the umami of a food product.

Abstract: To provide an edible ingredient having an exceptional effect for enhancing umami. An umami-enhancing composition having a carotenoid degradation product as an active ingredient. The umami-enhancing composition can be formulated through a manufacturing method that includes a step for adding a carotenoid to an edible oil and fat, and a step for degrading the carotenoid in the edible oil and fat. The carotenoid degradation product is preferably a degradation product of one or more selected from the group consisting of carotenes and xanthophylls. The umami-enhancing composition is optimally used as a food-product ingredient, etc., for manufacturing a seasoning or extract or for enhancing the umami of a food product.

Abstract: A taste-improving agent for a high-intensity sweetener, the taste-improving agent having a carotenoid degradation product as an active ingredient. The taste-improving agent can be formulated through a manufacturing method that includes a step for carrying out an oxidation treatment on carotenoids in an oil and fat to obtain a carotenoid degradation product. The carotenoid degradation product is preferably obtained by degrading one or more selected from the group consisting of carotenes and xanthophylls. The taste-improving agent is suitably used as a food product ingredient, etc., for improving the taste of, inter alia, a food product that includes a high-intensity sweetener.

Abstract: There is provided a novel method for suppressing coloration of an oil and fat composition when a food ingredient is fried using the oil and fat composition. This method includes a step for adding a preparation oil to an edible oil and fat, and is such that: the preparation oil is a substance that has been subjected, in a step for refining a crude raw oil obtained from olives serving as an oilseed raw material, to (1) an optionally implemented neutralization step, (2) an optionally implemented bleaching step, and (3) an optionally implemented deodorization step in the stated order, without a degumming step having been implemented, where at least one of the (2) bleaching step and the (3) deodorization step is implemented; and an absorbance difference of the preparation oil is 0.05 or more, the absorbance difference being obtained by subtracting the absorbance at a wavelength of 750 nm from the absorbance at a wavelength of 660 nm, with isooctane used as a control.

Abstract: Provided are an oil and fat composition for heat cooking that has an exceptional effect of suppressing negative aspects caused by using edible oil and fat in heat cooking, and an edible material for the same. This oil and fat composition for heat cooking contains an n-3 edible oil and fat in which the amount of n-3 fatty acid in the total amount of constituent fatty acids is 30 mass % or more and 80 mass % or less, and a base oil and fat consisting of an edible oil and fat other than the n-3 edible oil and fat, the oil and fat composition being characterized in that 0.01 mass % or more and less than 1 mass % of the n-3 edible oil and fat is contained in the oil and fat composition.

Abstract: Provided is an edible material having an exceptional sweetness-enhancing effect. This method for producing an oil and fat composition is characterized in comprising a step for adding a carotenoid to an edible oil and fat, and a step for decomposing the carotenoid in the edible oil and fat. The carotenoid is preferably one or more selected from the group consisting of ?-carotene, ?-carotene, retinol, lutein, canthaxanthin, ?-cryptoxanthin, bixin, norbixin, astaxanthin, zeaxanthin, fucoxanthin, violaxanthin, lycopene, crocin, crocetin, and capsanthin.

Abstract: Provided is an edible material having an exceptional sweetness-enhancing effect. This oxidized product of a palm-based oil and fat has a total content of ?-carotene and ?-carotene of 50 mass ppm or more and 2000 mass ppm or less, and a peroxide value of the oxidized product of 3 or more and 250 or less.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide: a method for suppressing the coloration of oils and fats during frying; and a coloring inhibitor. [Solution] A method for suppressing the coloration of an oil/fat composition for frying, the method comprising a step for adding a prepared oil to an edible oil or fat, wherein the prepared oil is obtained through (1) a degumming step, (2) a neutralization step which may or may not be performed, (3) a bleaching step which may or may not be performed, and (4) a deodorizing step, in this order, in the process of refining a crude oil obtained from an oil feedstock, and the absorbance difference determined by subtracting the absorbance at a wavelength of 750 nm from the absorbance at a wavelength of 660 nm of the prepared oil obtained from step (3) is at least 0.030 when isooctane is used as the control. A coloring inhibitor characterized by containing said prepared oil.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide: a method for improving the stability of an oil or fat composition for frying use by preventing the coloration of the oil or fat composition and also preventing the increase in an anisidine value and the decrease in the content of a tocopherol compound in the oil or fat composition when a food material is fried with the oil or fat composition; and a stabilizer for an oil or fat composition for frying use. [Solution] A method for stabilizing an oil or fat composition for frying use according to the present invention is characterized in that a chlorophyll compound is added at a concentration of 0.05 to 2 ppm by mass inclusive to an edible oil or fat. It is preferred that the chlorophyll compound is added in the form of a chlorophyll compound-rich solution having a chlorophyll compound concentration of 1 to 1,000 ppm by mass inclusive. A stabilizer for an oil or fat composition for frying use according to the present invention contains a chlorophyll compound as an active ingredient.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide: a method for suppressing the coloration of oils and fats during frying; and a coloring inhibitor. [Solution] A method for suppressing the coloration of an oil/fat composition for frying, the method comprising a step for adding a prepared oil to an edible oil or fat, wherein the prepared oil is obtained through (1) a degumming step, (2) a neutralization step which may or may not be performed, (3) a bleaching step which may or may not be performed, and (4) a deodorizing step, in this order, in the process of refining a crude oil obtained from an oil feedstock, and the absorbance difference determined by subtracting the absorbance at a wavelength of 750 nm from the absorbance at a wavelength of 660 nm of the prepared oil obtained from step (3) is at least 0.030 when isooctane is used as the control. A coloring inhibitor characterized by containing said prepared oil.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide: a method for suppressing an increase in the anisidine value and a decrease in the amount of tocopherols in a fats and oils composition during frying; an inhibitor for suppressing an increase in the anisidine value; and an inhibitor for suppressing a decrease in the amount of tocopherols.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide a metabolic syndrome inhibitor which can inhibit the accumulation of visceral fat and body fat to thereby ameliorate or prevent metabolic syndrome. [Solution] The metabolic syndrome inhibitor according to the present invention comprises soybean hypocotyl oil as an active ingredient. In particular, the metabolic syndrome inhibitor serves as a body fat accumulation inhibitor and/or a blood neutral fat increase inhibitor. In particular, the body fat accumulation inhibitor serves as a visceral fat accumulation inhibitor.

Abstract: A method for forming a fat and oil composition for deep frying includes combining a crude oil or intermediate oil product with an edible oil and an ascorbic acid and/or an ascorbic acid derivative to form the fat and oil composition. The crude oil or intermediate oil product includes a phosphorus component such that the phosphorus component is provided in an amount of 0.1 ppm to 10 ppm of the oil and fat composition. The ascorbic acid and/or an ascorbic acid derivative in an ascorbic acid equivalent is provided in an amount of 2 ppm to 130 ppm of the oil and fat composition. The edible oil in the oil and fat composition includes a component such as soy bean oil, rapeseed oil, palm olein, or any one or more combinations thereof.

Abstract: The present invention provides an oil and fat composition that can prevent not only coloring caused by heating and cooked odor during heat cooking, but also increase in acid value, as well as that can endure long-term use. The oil and fat composition, which can prevent coloring caused by heating, cooked odor, and increase in acid value, can be obtained by incorporating 0.1 ppm or more and 10 ppm or less of a phosphorus component, and ascorbic acid and/or an ascorbic acid derivative in an ascorbic acid equivalent of 2 ppm or more and 130 ppm or less into an edible oil and fat.