To obtain the subject food, having low toxicity, excellent pharmacological activities and promoting actions on health by including a complex of polysaccharides and a protein prepared from a mushroom belonging to the family Hymenchaetaceae to a specific method therein.
This healthy food is obtained by including a complex of polysaccharides and a protein prepared by treating a mushroom belonging to the family Hymenchaetaceae with ethanol and then carrying out the water extraction treatment of the resultant residue. Concretely, the complex is obtained by treating a powder of a sclerotium of Fuscoporia obliqua with the ethanol, dissolving and removing a low-molecular substance, then extracting the resultant precipitate with water and further purifying the prepared substance by combining the dialysis with concentrating, ion exchange treatment, gel filtration and density gradient with ammonium sulfate, etc. The objective food can be eaten to expect enhancement in immune strength or healing power and effects on cancer, chronic gastitis, gastric ulcer, arteriosclerosis, etc.
SHIYOU MURA
ABE KUNIAKI
