摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a meat quality improver added to raw material meat so as to suppress deterioration in palate feeling of meat after retort sterilization in retort pouch food where the meat is encapsulated singly or together with other food materials. <P>SOLUTION: The meat quality improver contains oil-and-fat processed starch containing oil and fat, and glycerin organic acid fatty acid ester, and powdery curdlan having an average particle diameter of 0.05-50 μm. The oil-and-fat processed starch is obtained preferably by adding oil and fat and glycerin organic acid fatty acid ester to starch, and uniformly mixing them followed by drying them as necessary to make them get further mellow. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT |