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<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a packaged sterilized salad which is produced by mixing cut lump food material selected from avocado, tomato and mango, with acidic liquid seasoning, and contains the cut lump food material with solid feeling remaining without becoming pasty in spite of being sterilized by heating: and to provide a method for producing the packaged sterilized salad. <P>SOLUTION: The packaged sterilized salad has a best-before date of 30 days or more under a storage condition at 10°C or less, and a general viable cell count of 300 cfu/g or less, shows negative/0.1 g on coliform group, and is produced by mixing cut lump food material with acidic liquid seasoning, wherein the cut lump food material includes at least one kind selected from avocado, tomato, and mango; the cut lump food material of 15% or more having a size of 5-30 mm is almost evenly dispersed to the whole of the salad; almost the whole of the almost evenly dispersed cut lump food material is directly contact with the liquid seasoning. The method for producing the packaged sterilized salad includes: the step for preparing thermoplastic gel with which the cut lump food material comprising at least one kind selected from avocado, tomato and mango is almost embedded; the step for preparing salad by mixing the acidic liquid seasoning with the thermoplastic gel with which the cut lump food material is almost embedded; and the step for sterilizing the salad by heating. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT |