摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide soft and stretchable jellylike food and drink made so as to prevent syneresis. <P>SOLUTION: This jellylike food and drink comprises 0.001-2.0 wt.% of a gelling agent consisting mainly of one or more ingredient(s) selected from carrageenan, xanthan gum, locust bean gum, pectin, mannan, Cyamoposis Gum, Tamarindus Gum and taragamu. The content of the Cyamoposis Gum, Tamarindus Gum and taragamu in the gelling agent is within 97-1 wt.% based on the whole of the gelling agent. The jellylike food and drink exhibits a storage modulus of 0.05-150 Pa in a strain region of 1-10% under the conditions of a temperature of 7°C, a frequency of 1 Hz, and a gap of 1.2-1.3 mm without depending on the strain. The jellylike food and drink has an area where the storage elastic modulus increases without any decrease, in a strain region of 10-600%, and has an area where the storage modulus decreases depending on frequency, in 100-10 rad/sec and 1-0.1 rad/sec, when the changes of the period-dependent elastic modulus are detected under the conditions of a tan δ of <1, a temperature of 7°C, a strain region of 10% and a gap of 1.2-1.3 mm while gradually decreasing the frequency down to 100-0.1 rad/sec, in a strain region of 1-600%. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO |