1067 results about "Legume" patented technology

The invention includes a protein rich, dry dietary supplement comprising a blend of legume protein, whey protein, egg white, calcium caseinate and powdered skim milk that is specifically formulated for weight control without the use of artificial appetite suppressants, but instead provides beneficial nutrients and supplements that naturally curb the appetite for specified periods of time. A preferred set of ingredients includes a protein blend combined with additional nutrients, vitamins, minerals and flavorings to enhance taste and further control the need for caloric intake. Various other preferred forms of the invention provide for implementation to allow for weight gain or weight maintenance of individuals desirous of the use of the beverage as a dietary supplement for those purposes.

The invention described in this application relates to food compositions such as breakfast cereals, bread and the like which have an enhanced dietary fibre content. In each case the source of dietary fibre is a starch, preferably a maize starch, having an amylose content of 50% or more, the starch being incorporated into a food composition as appropriate. Alternatively, grains or legumes or parts thereof which include starch of this amylose content may be used.

A method of combined intercropping and mulching of commercial crops is described herein. Suitable annuals such as young wheat and / or buckwheat plants are planted in soil in which legumes were originally planted. A portion of the resulting upper portions of young wheat and / or buckwheat plants is mowed and blended with organic debris to provide nutrients for intercropped commercial plants such as corn and soybeans. The remaining portion is chopped blended with organic debris and sprayed onto the top layer of seeded soil as combination mulch. For larger commercial applications, conventional agricultural machines are described herein, and are modified for the most efficient intercropping. For best results, at least one intercropped commercial plant should be a legume.

The invention relates to health care crispy rice and a method for preparing the same. The health care crispy rice is prepared by grinding main raw materials of corn, rice and beans, mixing the main raw materials, and adding extracts of Chinese traditional medicines of yam, chicken gizzard membrane, fructus amomi, dried ginger, radish seed, dried orange peel, and the like to the main raw materials so that the crispy rice has comprehensive nutrition and health care effect, and people are supplemented with nutrition while enjoying the casual and delicious crispy rice. The crispy rice promotes the body health of the people and is suitable for the people at all ages, particularly for children, students and teenagers.

A microwaveable thermo-therapeutic cushion for placing on a body is disclosed. The thermo-therapeutic cushion comprises a flexible closed shell partially filled with a plurality of legume seeds. The plurality of legume seeds are operative to store heat upon being subjected to microwaves from a microwave oven and slowly release it to the body through the shell. The legume seeds may be lentils.

A method for dividing a field into zones with similar crop attributes and developing a mission plan for steering the harvester to selectively harvest crops based on one or more of the attributes. The attributes include protein level, starch level, oil level, sugar content, moisture level, digestible nutrient level, or any other crop characteristic of interest. The method can be applied to selectively harvest and / or segregate according to attribute any crop, including grains such as wheat, corn, or beans, fruits such as grapes, and forage crops. Directed crop sampling provides absolute value and variance information for segregated batches of harvested crop.

The invention relates to a body-building moon cake which is prepared from 111 kinds of raw materials, and belongs to a health-care food in food and drink and can be eaten by men and women and the old and the young. The moon cake is prepared by three layers instead of two layers in the prior art, and rice cakes are made for three times in the preparing process. The moon cake consists of three layers, namely a cake husk outer cladding layer, a cake filler inner cladding layer and a cake center filler layer, wherein the cake husk outer cladding layer takes flour as a main material, waxy corn powder as an auxiliary material, and common salt powder and vegetable oil as seasoning matters; the cake filler inner cladding layer takes 8 kinds of miscellaneous grain crops, 8 kinds of beans and peas and yeast powder as the auxiliary materials and powdered sugar and the common salt powder as the seasoning matters; and the cake center filler layer is synthesized by 7 kinds of raw materials, namely 27 kinds of fruit, 30 kinds of roots and barks, 10 kinds of stem leaves, 15 kinds of flower, 5 kinds of fungi and 2 kinds of the auxiliary materials, and takes the powdered sugar, the common salt powder and gelatinized vegetable oil as the seasoning matters. The moon cake is synthesized by 111 kinds of raw materials together, has three tastes, namely sweet, slightly sweet and salty sweet, and is divided into two kinds of common edible moon cakes and three kinds of edible moon cakes for the Mid-autumn Festival with overall dimension and character marks.

The invention discloses a multi-effect biofertilizer, comprising sarcandra glabra, cortex fraxini, radix stemonae, lightyellow sophora root, pin needles, isatis root, phellodendron, aloe, humic acid and inorganic fertilizers of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium; the weight percentages of the components are as follows: 1-2.5% of sarcandra glabra extract, 1-2.5% of radix stemonae extract, 1-2.5% of phellodendron extract, 5-10% of aloe extract, 10-15% of pin needles, 7-10% of isatis root, 7-10% of cortex fraxini, 10-15% of lightyellow sophora root, 15-20% of humic acid, 10-20% of available nitrogen, 5-10% of phosphorus pentoxide and 5-10% of potassium oxide. The Chinese medicinal herbs of the invention have the advantages of sterilization and disinfestation, safety without pollution, combined herbs and fertilizers, compound multielements, comprehensive nutrition, long-acting slow release and improved utilization rate. The multi-effect biofertilizer can be widely applied to such cash crops as corn, cotton, rapeseed plants, peanuts, legume, silkworm and mulberry, tea forests, fruit grove and various vegetables.

There is described a substrate to which is applied, coupled or cross-linked to at least one part of said substrate an allergen wherein said allergen is a protein derived from an extract selected from at least one of the following food groups: cereal, legume, cocoa bean, nut, fruit, vegetable, shellfish, fish, yeast, dairy product, egg and meat.

A pest-combating composition including sodium lauryl sulfate and one or more of C6-12 fatty acids, preferably lauric and / or capric and / or caprylic acid, soy methyl ester, and 2-undecanone, and methods of combating pests utilizing same, are disclosed. The compositions can include a carrier oil such as silicon oil, soy methyl ester, or a vegetable oil, and can be in the form of an emulsion. The composition may be constituted as a spray composition, an aerosol, a lotion, a paste, or another compositional form. Pests that may be usefully combated with such composition include flying insects, including flies, mosquitoes, and wasps, ants, including arthropods such as fire ants, ticks, fleas, cockroaches, silver fish, thrips, gnats, aphids, Japanese beetles, and agricultural and horticultural arthropods and insects including beetles (potato and bean), flea beetles, fleahoppers, squash bugs, slugs, leaf hoppers, harlequin bugs, milk weed bugs, spiders, mites, lice, rodents, and deer.

The invention relates to a fertilizer and a process for preparing the same, in particular to a green organic crop microorganism fertilizer. The microorganism fertilizer is characterized in that the microorganism fertilizer is prepared by the mix-fermentation of eight bacterial communities of photosynthetic bacteria, azotobacter, actinomycete, lactobacillus, yeast, root fixing bacteria, potassium bacteria and phosphorus bacteria, a plurality of beneficial microbial agents, coal gangue powder, lignite, straw carbon, humic acid, crop straw powder and excrement. Tests show that the microorganism fertilizer has obvious effect on the growth of corn, broomcorn, cereal, legume, paddy rice, fruits, flowers, pasture and the like, the production increasing rate is between 15 and 30 percent, and the microorganism fertilizer has obvious function on resisting diseases, lodging and insects, and can replace pesticide, fertilizer and hormone, avoid chemical pollution, improve soil fertility and product quality, and make the product become green or organic standards; and particularly, various crop straw and excrement are used as a carrier, thereby further lowering cost of the microorganism fertilizer and opening up a new path for the popularization and application of the microorganism fertilizer.

Disclosed are skin care compositions exerting a novel complementary dual mode of action in protecting the skin from day-to-day insults. The skin care compositions of the present invention comprise the extract from the liquid endosperm of Cocos nucifera as the principle ingredient along with one or more actives including the fruit rind extracts of Garcinia cambogia, Garcinia indica and Garcinia mangostana, seed coat extract of Tamarindus indicus, Chlorogenic acid extract from the beans of Coffea arabica, seed extracts of Nelumbo species, the leaf extracts of Murraya koenigii and the triterpene pentapeptides of oleanolic acid and ursolic acid. While the extract of Cocos nucifera has been included as a nutritional supplement (a natural cell culture medium) to ensure the maintenance of the viability and constant renewal of the cells of the skin, the other actives have been carefully chosen based on one or more of their effective skin care properties. The compositions of the present invention offer a safe prophylactic / therapeutic management solution to the wide range of pathological states associated with skin insults and the associated psycho-social issues.

A coffee-type beverage base is prepared by light roast method under 200° C. and originated from grain and legume. This coffee substitute has a pleasant aroma, and can be used as a carrier of nutritional supplement or herb therapy as well as an additive of coffee, tea, or chocolate. This novel drink is especially suitable for individuals who suffer from conditions making them coffee intolerant, e.g., pregnancy, or those who suffer form hypoglycemia, hypertension, arrhythmia, insomnia, or gastric irritation.

A method for determining the presence of food allergy or food intolerance and their cross-reactive tissue antigens is disclosed. The method includes determining a level of antibodies against a dietary antigen in a mucosal sample from the patient and comparing the level with normal levels of the antibodies. Dietary antigens that were tested include milk and milk products; eggs and egg products; meat and meat products; fish, mollusks, and crustaceans and their products; oils, fats, and their products; grains and grain products; pulses, seed, kernels, nuts, and their products; vegetable and vegetable products; fruit and fruit products; sugar, sugar product, chocolate products, and confectionary; and spices.

The invention described in this application relates to food compositions such as breakfast cereals, bread and the like which have an enhanced dietary fiber content. In each case the source of dietary fiber is a starch, preferably a maize starch, having an amylose content of 50% or more, the starch being incorporated into a food composition as appropriate. Alternatively, grains or legumes or parts thereof which include starch of this amylose content may be used.

The invention relates generally to isolated leucoanthocyanidin reductase LAR polypeptides of the Reductase-Epimerase-Dehydrogenase (RED) protein family, and nucleic acid molecules encoding same and their use in regulating the biosynthesis and accumulation of proanthocyanidins in plants. The invention is further directed to isolated nucleic acid molecules of plants, which encode leucoanthocyanidin reductases of the RED protein family. The isolated polypeptides and nucleic acid molecules of the present invention are useful for modifying the pasture quality of legumes, and, in particular, for producing bloat-safe forage crops, or crops having enhanced nutritional value, enhanced disease resistance or pest resistance, or enhanced malting qualities.

Food products containing legume products, as well as processes for producing the food products are disclosed.

The invention provides a method of para position allocation and ,mixing cultivation of planting grass for afforestation on purple hills, which comprises the steps of: (1) division of land types: purple hilly lands are divided according to the acidity, basicity and lithology of the lands, soil erosion, soil thickness and terrain features; (2) selection of species of trees and grasses: species of trees and grasses which are applicable to grow in varied purple lands are selected according to the selection experiments of the different types of species of trees and grasses used for afforesting of purple hilly lands, and fitting degrees of the species of trees and grasses to each kind of land are specified; (3) para position allocation of the species of trees and grasses with the kinds of the lands: corresponding species of trees and grasses are allocated on the most suitable or relatively suitable lands; (4) mixed disposition of trees: different optimized disposition modes for purple hilly mixed forests are selected according to the mixed experiments of the trees for different kinds of lands of hills and hilly areas with purple soil, and trees and bushes, legumes and non-legumes, species of trees of deep root system and shallow root system, horizontally growing type and vertically growing type, soil fixing type and soil improved type are mixed. The method of the invention adopts trees, brushes and grasses to be planted on the most suitable and relatively suitable hills with purple soil, thus realizing precise para position allocation, high survival rate being up to over 90 percent and greatly accelerating the growing speed and forest establishment speed.

The process for preparation of hypoglycemic foods and formulations thereof, useful as snacks, wholesome or supplementary foods, especially to the Type II diabetics, and a hypoglycemic foods and formulations product of composition with concentration of toasted cereals is ranging between 50-60%, concentration of toasted legumes is ranging between 6-12%, concentration of soy is ranging between 7-15%, concentration of fenugreek is ranging between 2-6%, concentration of spice mix is ranging between 3-7%, concentration of amla fruit pulp is ranging between 0.5-2%, concentration of Garcinia combogia rinds is ranging between 1.5 to 3%, concentration of dry skimmed milk is ranging between 3-6%, concentration of edible oil is ranging between 2-6%, and concentration of vitamin and mineral premix is ranging between 1-3%.

The invention relates to the agricultural field, which is a method for improving output and quality of lucern seeds, and comprises selecting and preprocessing land blocks, selecting grass seeds and breaking dormancy of lucern seeds, producing nodule bacteria into bacteria liquid, spraying the bacteria liquid to seeds in the dark, low-temperature and humid environment, and fully and evenly churning the nodule bacteria with the seeds, and planting and sowing, the occupied area of each seedling is 0.24-0.35m 2, adopting mild irrigating and fertilizing weedicide to weed, penetratingly irrigating for a time in the early stage of budding and flowering, and further watering in flowering and pod-bearing period, auxiliary pollinating by human labor and preventing and curing pests, when 2 / 3-3 / 4 of green pods of lucerns become brown and seeds become yellow, the seeds of lucerns are mature, and people can reap, and thinning out of branches and planting after seeds are reaped. The invention overcomes the shortcomings in the prior art and controls line space and planting distance to continuously achieve the highest seed output in many years.

The present invention discloses neutral seasoning milk containing edible plant granules and its producing method. The neutral seasoning milk containing edible plant granules provided by the present invention is composed of the following weight ratio of raw material: milk 75 to 95, edible plant granules 1 to 20, sugar 3 to 15, stabilizer 0.1 to 1, and flavouring composition 0.05 to 0.2. The present invention resolves the stability problem of edible plant granule in seasoning milk through screening a reasonable ratio of the various components, makes grain granules, nut granules, fruit and vegetable granules and bean granules edible plant granules suspend in the product system stably; the abundant nutritional value of the present invention can be satisfied with children, adolescent, office-goers and middle-aged people, it has a strong market prospects.

A process and method for the production of endophytes as plant inoculant products, specifically Clonostachys rosea strain 88-710, for the promotion of plant vigor, health, growth and yield are disclosed. The endophyte, Clonostachys rosea strain 88-710 produces a fungal conidial preparation by utilizing a discrete solid substrate fermentation system, namely Potato Dextrose Agar or Malt Extract Agar. Additionally, the endophyte, Clonostachys rosea strain 88-710, can act as an inoculant to stimulate and have an additive effect with rhizobium bacteria on the production of nitrogen fixing nodules on legumes and growth enhancement e.g. beans, soybeans, peas and alfalfa. As well, Clonostachys rosea strain 88-710, can combine with rooting hormones, e.g. indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) to provide inoculant and rooting benefits to cuttings / transplants of plants.

Compositions and methods for enhancing plant growth and crop yield in legumes and non-legumes are described. The compositions include lipo- chitooligosaccharides in combination with chitins / chitosans or in combination with flavonoid compounds or in combination with a herbicide. The method includes applying the compositions to seeds and / or plants either concomitantly or sequentially.

The present invention features a cleansing composition containing (i) a surfactant, (ii) a legume product, and (iii) a cosmetically active organic acid or a cosmetically acceptable salt or ester thereof, and the use thereof in cleansing the skin.

The invention relates to a natural green bio-organic pesticide composition and its application. The technology is characterized in that: A, natural camphor, rheum officinale, Chinese cassia tree, eucalyptus oil, dry ginger, common fennel fruit, capsicum and auxiliary materials are made into a natural biological pesticide; and B, rhizoma atractylodis, magnolia cortex (prepared with ginger), Poria cocos, raw Pinellia tuber, oil of patchouli,dried orange peel, dahurian angelica root, areca peel, extractum glycyrrhizae, perilla leaf oil and auxiliary materials are made into a natural biological pesticide. The pesticide provided by the invention can be directly applied to melon, fruit, leaf, vegetable legumes, tea, traditional Chinese medicines, flower, rape, cotton, tobacco and the like for the control of insect diseases. After applied with the biological pesticide, vegetables and fruits can be directly eaten without residual pesticide harm to human body.

The invention relates to producing resveratrol glucoside in edible legume plants by transforming with a transgene encoding resveratrol synthase operably linked to a constitutive promoter. The invention relates to products containing and methods of using transformed edible legume plants and edible material of the transformed legume plants as a foodstuff, a nutritional supplement, an animal feed supplement or a nutraceutical. The invention further relates to a method of increasing disease resistance in an edible legume plant by transforming with a transgene encoding resveratrol synthase operably linked to a constitutive promoter.

Processes for the production of isoflavones are described wherein plant material from plants of the genus leguminosae are contacted with water, an enzyme which cleaves isoflavone glycosides to the aglucone form and a C2-C10 organic solvent, so as to form a combination, incubating the combination for a time sufficient to allow isoflavones of the aglucone form to partition into the organic solvent component, and thereafter recovering isoflavones from the organic solvent component.

An extruded legume snack food comprising an extruded puff product based on a dried legume powder having a shape that is a facsimile of the natural starting material, such as a pea pod. A legume powder is mixed with a starch, extruded, and then shaped. The extrudate can be shaped by a number of forming devices or, in an alternative embodiment, by the orifice shape of an extrusion die when the extrudate is face cut from the extruder.

The invention discloses a dietetic food composition for losing weight. The composition comprises the following ingredients: fresh meat and aquatic product, vegetables, fruits, dried mushroom products, cereals, beans, nut meat, edible vegetable oil, eggs, protein hydrolysate powder, dietary fiber powder, konjac powder, guar gum, polyols, phosphatidylcholine, fruit polyphenols, L-carnitine, vitamin A, vitamin E, vitamin C, thiamine hydrochloride, riboflavin, nicotinamide, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, cyanide-containing cobalt and pantothenic acid. By adopting the dietetic food composition disclosed by the invention, the total energy intake is reduced under the premise of ensuring normal basic metabolic rate, the requirements of the body on protein at a low-energy diet period are improved, and related nutrients are replenished to facilitate body fat, visceral fat and blood lipid metabolism, so as to achieve the target of losing weight. Meanwhile, the invention also discloses a preparation method of the dietetic food composition and use of the dietetic food composition in preparation of a medicament for preventing or treating an obesity disease.

A method for making a low or reduced carbohydrate dough for making snack food products with a reduced carbohydrate content. Legumes such as soybeans are cooked near boiling, drained, and milled. Dry ingredients such as starch, fiber, and / or protein can be added to lower the dough moisture content so the dough can be sheeted and cut into pre-forms. The pre-forms can then be cooked, by frying or baking, and seasoned to make a low carbohydrate tortilla-like snack food.