Keizo Arihara

TL;DR: There is an urgent need to inform consumers of the exact functional value of meat and meat products including novel functional foods, and particularly on the possibility of meat protein-derived bioactive peptides, such as antihypertensive peptides.

TL;DR: It is proposed that pulsed light can be used as an effective sterilizing method for the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae with difference in the inactivation effect between pulsing light and UV light.

TL;DR: Inhibitors of angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) have been shown to have antihypertensive effects and have been utilized for pharmaceuticals and physiologically functional foods and in the present study, efforts were directed to find ACE inhibitory activities derived from muscle proteins.

TL;DR: The animal byproduct, hen eggshell membrane (ESM), was evaluated for its ability to sorb gold ions from solutions and electroplating wastewater, with gold uptake dependent on pH, temperature and co-ions present in the solutions, with pH 3.0 being the optimum value.

TL;DR: The results suggest the intestinal Lactobacillus strains selected in this study could be utilized as a starter culture to produce new fermented meat products that are microbiologically safe.