| 摘要 |
Disclosed are: a food which is easy to chew and swallow even for persons who have a deteriorated chewing/swallowing function, particularly elder persons, persons who are suffering from diseases, convalescent persons who are in a recovery stage, convalescent persons who have aftereffects or persons who have an unsatisfactory chewing/swallowing function such as weaned infants, while retaining a bread-like appearance; and a process for producing the food. The process for producing the food is characterized by comprising allowing a dough which comprises 100 parts by mass of a cereal flour and 140 parts by mass or less of water to rise using yeast or a leavening agent or both thereof, and burning or heating the resulting product, and impregnating the heated or burned food with 50 to 200 parts by mass of a liquid or a gel-like composition relative to 100 parts by mass of the burned or heated food, so that the resulting food can have such a physical property that the hardness is 5 × 104 N/m2 or less. |
