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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a milk-based hard candy and a milk-based nonsugar hard candy having a delicious taste that is produced with a food ingredient that can replace part or most of the dairy product at low cost. SOLUTION: The present invention relates to a food ingredient having milk taste-enhancing action, prepared by heating an aqueous solution containing an amino acid mixture containing at least three kinds of amino acids selected from valine, proline, isoleucine, lysine, glutamic acid and arginine as the principal components and a carbohydrate. The milk taste-enhanced milk-based hard candy contains the food ingredient having milk taste-enhancing action in an amount as solid matter of 0.001 to 1.0 wt.%. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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