Patent ID: 8653032

Claim:
A method for activating TRPV1 (transient receptor potential vanilloid-1) activity in a cell, comprising: (i) preparing Maillard peptides by: (a) centrifuging well-aged traditional soy sauce and removing pellets; (b) obtaining a fraction containing peptide fragments from the well-aged traditional soy sauce of step (a) wherein the molecular weight of individual peptide fragments ranges from 500 to 10,000; and (c) purifying Maillard peptides by performing gel filtration chromatography on the fraction containing peptide fragments of step (b); (ii) administering a composition comprising an effective amount of a Maillard peptides produced by steps (a) through (c) to a cell expressing TRPV1; and (iii) measuring the activity level of TRPV 1 in the cell expressing TRPV 1.