| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing sterilized shrimp, which can easily and inexpensively produce retort sterilized shrimp that has excellent palate feeling even after retort sterilization, and is excellent in the appearance, flavor and taste, and to provide the retort sterilized shrimp put in a holding container.SOLUTION: This method for producing the retort sterilized shrimp includes a moisture decreasing process A for decreasing moisture of the shrimp as a food object, a sealing process B of filling the holding container with the shrimp reduced in moisture, and filling the holding container with gas so as to have 0.4-8.3 mL of head space per mL of a shrimp volume followed by sealing the holding container, and a retort sterilization process C for performing sterilization treatment by heating and pressurizing the sealed holding container. The retort sterilized shrimp put in the holding container includes the shrimp as the food object, dried by boiling or exposing to low temperature and reduced in moisture content, and 0.4-8.3 mL head space per mL of a shrimp volume in the holding container. |
