Method for manufacturing antioxidant-enhanced granule tea using Phellinus linteus and lion's mane mushroom as active ingredients

Lion's mane mushroom granule tea made without added sugar, using hot-water concentrated Phellinus linteus extract as a binder

This technology is a manufacturing method for granule tea with enhanced antioxidant properties, created by mixing lion's mane mushroom powder with a hot-water concentrated extract of Phellinus linteus, a type of medicinal mushroom, then granulating, drying, gelatinizing, and pulverizing the mixture.

Lion's mane and Phellinus linteus are medicinal mushrooms known for their anti-inflammatory/nerve-regenerating and anti-cancer/immune-boosting effects, respectively. However, conventional lion's mane granules required the addition of fructose, such as corn syrup, to bind the particles together. This necessitated the inclusion of non-mushroom additives and made it difficult to simultaneously enhance the tea's flavor and functionality.

This technology allows the concentrated Phellinus linteus extract, obtained through long-term hot-water extraction, to act as a binder, enabling granulation without additional additives. The granules are low-temperature dried and briefly high-temperature gelatinized to enhance flavor. Combining these two mushrooms significantly increases polyphenol and beta-glucan content, strengthening antioxidant effects. Applicable to portable stick-type mushroom tea, antioxidant health supplement ingredients, and processed specialties for mushroom farms, it allows for the convenient consumption of both medicinal mushrooms in a single cup while enabling a clean, sugar-free product composition.

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Key Features:

• A step of drying and finely pulverizing lion's mane mushrooms to prepare powder for use as a granule tea ingredient
• A step of placing sliced Phellinus linteus in water, performing long-term hot-water extraction, and concentrating the liquid to prepare a Phellinus linteus hot-water extract concentrate
• A step of mixing 10 to 80 parts by weight of the Phellinus linteus hot-water extract concentrate with 100 parts by weight of lion's mane mushroom powder
• A step of injecting the mixture into a mold to form granules, drying them, gelatinizing them at a high temperature, and then pulverizing them

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This invention was developed through support from the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs for the development of high-value-added processed foods with immune-boosting properties, based on the stable production of Phellinus linteus.

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