摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fruit-containing hard candy that suppresses stickiness of dried fruit, improves its preservability and is eaten more deliciously and a method for producing the same. <P>SOLUTION: The fruit-containing hard candy comprises a fruit processed food part containing ≥40 wt.% of a dried fruit, 1-15 wt.% of oil-and-fat content and 7-15 wt.% of a water content and a hard candy part having ≤5 wt.% of a water content in the ratio of the surface area of the fruit processed part to that of the hard candy part of 1:20-5:1. Preferably the solid fat content of the oil-and-fat is ≥70% at ≤30°C and ≤40% at ≥50°C. The fruit-containing hard candy is produced through a process for processing a fried fruit into a minced state and mixing the minced dried fruit with oil-and-fat to prepare a fruit processed food and a process for extruding the fruit processed food into a liner state and combining the food with a hard candy or a process for simultaneously forming the fruit processed food and a hard candy into a linear state. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT |