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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain cheese suitable for the raw material of a freeze-dried food, usable as an ingredient material of instant food such as instant noodle and instant soup, and also usable as an ingredient of other general food groups, mainly a liquid food group such as Chinese noodles, soup, miso soup and one-pot cooking, and excellent in reconstitution properties with hot water, and having excellent sticky properties after reconstituting with hot water, and to obtain a freeze-dried food obtained by freeze drying the cheese. SOLUTION: The cheese suitable for the raw material of the freeze-dried food is obtained by using as the raw material natural cheese, natural cheese having maturity index of≤20% or adjusted in maturity index to≤20%, using as melting salt, (A) 2 kinds of citrate or monophosphate and polyphosphate or (B) 3 kinds of citrate, monophosphate and polyphosphate together. The freeze-dried food is obtained by cutting, sharpening or crushing the cheese thus obtained followed by freeze drying. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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