Taurine functional beer and its producing process

Abstract

The technological scheme of the present invention is that taurine is added into beer to produce functional taurine beer. The production process includes saccharification of beer wort, filtering, adding hop, boiling, separating hop from beer, cooling, adding taurine, filtering to obtain beer product. The added amount of taurine is 0.010-0.050 wt%. The functional taurine beer can lower cholesterol, resisting lipoid peroxidation and prevent blood fat raising, and the taurine can excite the activity of acetaldehyde dehydrogenase so as to lower or remit the inhibition of acetaldehyde as the primary metabolism product of alcohol in beer on human body's central nerve system and to protect liver and stomach mucous membrane.

Description

Technical field: [0001] The invention relates to a functional beer and a production process thereof, in particular to a taurine functional beer and a production process thereof. Background technique: [0002] Brewed from malt, rice, hops, brewer's yeast and brewing water, beer has now become one of the most widely consumed alcoholic beverages in the world. Known as "liquid bread", beer contains a variety of amino acids, vitamins, trace elements and carbohydrates. Beer is rich in nutrition, and drinking in moderation is beneficial to human health. However, drinking beer may lead to increased blood lipids, fatty liver, adverse effects on cardiovascular and so on. Consumers' requirements for today's beer are fresh, nutritious, natural, low alcohol, low calorie, less additives, and convenient drinking. People urgently need beer with health care functions to replace ordinary beer, so that people can improve ordinary beer while drinking beer Some adverse effects on the human bod...