| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gel-like food which can safely be eaten by a person needing intraoral hygiene and having a lowered swallowing function, such as an aged person, especially an aged person needing cares, and has an excellent intraoral hygiene-maintaining and improving property and an excellent swallowable property. SOLUTION: This gel-like food is characterized by containing a gelling material which comprises a polyphenol compound and a thickening polysaccharide, has a pH value of <=4.6 and a solidity of <=5×10<3> N/m<2> , when passed through a sieve of 5 mesh (aperture: 4 mm). |
