Nutrition capsules for treating senile maculopathy and preparation process

Abstract

The invention discloses nutrition capsules for treating senile maculopathy and a preparation process, which relate to the field of medical and health-care foods. The capsules consist of capsule materials and capsule contents and are prepared from 1 to 20 milligrams of xanthophylls, 0.1 to 2 milligrams of zeaxanthin, 0.05 to 1 milligrams of vitamin A, 0.2 to 4 milligrams of gluconate zinc, 0.2 to 4 milligrams of selenium, 0.5 to 10 milligrams of taurine and 200 to 250 milligrams of dried skim milk. The preparation process comprises: weighing raw materials, mixing the raw materials, granulating the mixture, drying the grains, straightening the grains, filling the grains and packaging the grains to obtain the finished products. The xanthophylls of the capsules are easy to be absorbed by human bodies, the bioavailability is high and the properties of the capsules are stable.

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Technical field:

[0001] The invention relates to the field of medicine and health food, in particular to a nutritional capsule for age-related macular degeneration and a preparation process. Background technique:

[0002] Lutein is extracted from the petals of the Compositae plant Calendula, which belongs to carotenoids, also known as "plant lutein", and exists together with zeaxanthin in vegetables, fruits, flowers and other plants in nature.

[0003] The function of lutein was first discovered in 1985. In the United States, an epidemiological investigation of 421 cases of age-related macular degeneration (Age-related macular degeneration, AMD) patients and 615 cases of disease-free population found that retinal spots in the elderly Carotenoids have the function of resisting AMD and protecting vision. It is further found that the carotenoids that exist in large quantities on the macula are lutein and zealeutein. Just as vitamin A deficiency can cause night blindness, lutei...