COMPOSITION CONTAINING KALE AS ACTIVE INGREDIENT

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a food product for preventing, treating or improving depressive feeling or depressive state or intractable dermatological disorders and a composition effective for prophylaxis of onset or improvement of symptom for mental symptom or physical symptom caused by intractable dermatological disorders or mental symptom or physical symptom caused by the depressive state. SOLUTION: Each of the composition and the food product such as a health food product, a functional nutritive food product, a dietary supplement, supplement or a specific health food product comprises kale or its extract as an active ingredient. The composition and the food product can prevent, treat or improve depressive feeling or depressive state or intractable dermatological disorders, and further, depressive feeling or depressive state accompanied by abnormality of internal secretion in perimenopausal period or or intractable dermatological disorders. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO