The foods, beverages, or drinks may be prepared by comprising,
adding and/or diluting a composition containing fulvic acid so as to achieve
a final dosage concentration of at least 700 mg/L fulvic acid. Methods
for preparing foods, beverages, or drinks containing fulvic acid
are not particularly limited. For example, manufacturing processes may
include, but are not limited to, cooking and processes carried out in accordance
with those methods generally employed for foods, beverages, or drinks.
In addition, the form of the foods, beverages, or drinks of the present
invention are not particularly limited. For example, foods, beverages,
or drinks according to the present invention include, but are not limited
to, processed agricultural and forest compositions, processed stock raising
compositions, processed marine compositions and the like, including processed
grain compositions such as processed wheat compositions, processed starch
compositions, processed premix compositions, noodles, macaronis, bread,
bean jam, buckwheat noodles, wheat-gluten bread, rice noodle, fen-tiao,
and packed rice cake; processed fat and oil compositions such as plastic
fat and oil, tempura oil, salad oil, mayonnaise, and dressing; processed
soybean compositions such as tofu compositions, soybean paste, and fermented
soybeans; processed meat compositions such as ham, bacon, pressed ham,
and sausage; marine compositions such as frozen ground fish, boiled fish
paste, tubular roll of boiled fish paste, cake of ground fish, deep-fried
patty of fish paste, fish ball, sinew, fish meat ham and sausage, dried
bonito, compositions of processed fish egg, marine cans, and preserved
food boiled down in soy sauce (tsukudani); milk compositions such as raw
material milk, cream, yogurt, butter, cheese, condensed milk, powder milk,
and ice cream; processed vegetable and fruit compositions such as paste,
jam, pickled vegetables, fruit beverages, vegetable beverages, and mixed
beverages; confectioneries such as chocolates, biscuits, sweet bun, cake,
rice cake snacks, and rice snacks; alcohol beverages such as sake, Chinese
liquor, wine, whisky, Japanese distilled liquor (shochu), vodka, brandy,
gin, rum, beer, refreshing alcoholic beverages, fruit liquor, and liqueur;
luxury drinks such as green tea, tea, oolong tea, coffee, soft drinks and
lacetic acid drinks; seasonings such as soy sauce, sauce, vinegar, and
sweet rice wine; canned, binned or pouched foods such as rice topped cooked
beef and vegetable, rice boiled together with meat and vegetables in a
small pot, steamed rice with red beans, curry roux and rice, and other
precooked foods; semi-dry or concentrated foods such as liver pastes and
other spreads, soups for buckwheat noodles or wheat noodles, and concentrated
soups; dry foods such as instant noodles, instant curry roux, instant coffee,
powder juice, powder soup, instant soybean paste (miso) soup, precooked
foods, precooked beverages, and precooked soup; frozen foods such as sukiyaki,
pot-steamed hotchpotch, split and grilled eel, hamburger steak, shao-mai,
dumpling stuffed with minced pork, various sticks, and fruit cocktails;
solid foods; liquid foods (soups or the like); spices; and the like.
In further embodiments, the fulvic acid may be mixed with
one or more carriers, adjuvants, and/or diluents to form a composition
for human use. See, e.g., Remington's Pharmaceutical Science 18th Ed. (1990,
Mack Publishing Co., Easton, Pa.), Goodman and Gilman's
The Pharmacologic Basis of Therapeutics 10th Ed. (2001,
McGraw-Hill Professional). The fulvic acid, with or without an adjuvant
and/or a carrier, may be administered to a subject in a manner that will
provide the fulvic acid to the subject. Examples include, but are not limited
to, site-specific injection, systemic injection, and/or administration
intravenously, orally, and/or topically. Compositions containing fulvic
acid may be shaped into tablets, granules, capsules, emulsions, suspensions,
or the like which may be taken orally. Further, the compositions containing
fulvic acid may use alternative delivery devices and methods such as, but
not limited to, sprays, inhalers, suppositories, and drops.
Other embodiments of the invention relate to methods of
promoting hair growth in a subject comprising delivering to the subject
at least 5 mg of fulvic acid per day. More preferably, from 20 to 30 mg
of fulvic acid are delivered to the subject per day. Methods of delivering
the fulvic acid to a subject include, but are not limited to, injection,
tablets, capsules, granules, supplements, foods, creams, ointments, suspensions,
emulsions, liquids, drinks, beverages, sprays, inhalers, suppositories,
eye drops, and cosmetics.
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