• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.34 no.6
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• pp.875-879
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• 2005

Linustatin and neolinustatin in flaxseed are called cyanogenic glucosides which produce acetone, hydrogen cyanide (HCN) and sugar when hydrolyzed. The HCN is the chemical whose toxin is being issued in food safety. Linustatin and neolinustatin were found in flaxseed by 206.5 and 174.2 mg/100 g, respectively using a RI-HPLC and LC/MSn analysis of $80\%$ methanol extraction. Also, HCN (137.38 mg/kg) was found in flaxseed distillate by autohydrolysis and IC analysis. More than 85$\%$ of linustatin, neolinustatin and HCN were removed when flaxseed was heated for more than 2 hours in $200^{\circ}C$. Especially, HCN was decreased to $98\%$ by heating only 30 min in $200^{\circ}C$.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.626-632
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• 2004

Of hot- water extracts prepared from 30 kinds of herbal medicines, Acanthopanax senticosus (75.6% inhibition of control), Atractylodes macrocephale (71.3%), Panax ginseng (70.0%), Glycyrrhiza uralensis (66.3%) and Angelica acutiloba (63.1%) showed the potent tumor metastasis inhibition activity against colon 26-M3.1 lung carcinoma at 2.5 mg/kg body weight, whereas the other extracts had a little activity, except for Pueraria thunbergiana (58.6%) and C. leticulata (54.9%) having the intermediate activity. We also found that Citrus leticulata (1.80-fold of control), A. macrocephale (1.73-fold), A. senticosus and G. uralensis (1.64-fold) enhanced on Peyer's patch cells mediated-hematopoietic response at 100 $\mu\textrm{g}$/mL. In addition, these active herbal medicines were prepared into steam distillates to improve the food rheology as beverage, and to remove the inactive components. Among these steam distillates, A. macrocephale, G. uralensis and A. senticosus showed the significant tumor metastasis inhibition activity at 2.5 mg/kg body weight (58.7%, 50.3% and 41.9%, respectively), and A. macrocephale had the potent activity even at 0,25 mg/kg body weight (49.7%). In treatments of steam distillates with Peyer's patch cells, A. macrocephale and A. senticosus significantly increased the bone marrow cell proliferation even at 10 $\mu\textrm{g}$/mL (1.49- and 1.28-fold of control). Although steam distillates had lower activity than hot-water extracts, herbal medicines, such as A. macrocephale and A. senticosus, showed the high immunostimulating activity in hot-water extracts as well as steam distillates. Therefore, these results assumed the possibility that steam distillates from herbal medicines might be utilized to food industry for beverage.