| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cooked rice improver, keeping and improving essential luster and stickiness of the cooked rice, having satisfactory effect of improving taste and texture, further making fluffy cooked rice, preventing deterioration and having excellent flavor. <P>SOLUTION: This cooked rice improver is obtained by granulating raw material containing starch with a content of 40 wt.% to be granular material having heating solubility of 20% or more and ranging from 5 wt.% to 100 wt.% on a sieve with an opening of 0.5 mm (32 meshes). The raw material contains water-soluble hemicellulose and starch with an amylose content of 20% or less, which is subjected to acid treatment or oxidation treatment. The content of the water-soluble hemicellulose in the raw material is from 2 wt.% to 18 wt.%, and the content of the starch with an amylose content of 20% or less subjected to acid treatment or oxidation treatment to the whole starch in the raw material is from 45 wt.% to 100 wt.%. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT |
