摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for treating a raw sea urchin capable of keeping its state of not falling low for a long period of time and preserving its natural color and flavor capable of satisfying the natural orientation to a true and natural material by customers, and still surely safe to a human body. SOLUTION: This method for treating a raw sea urchin comprises taking out an ovary from the crust of the harvested raw sea urchin, washing and immersing it in a percolated tea liquid or tea extract liquid for 5 min to 24 hr, preferably 1-12 hr, removing water from the immersed ovary, putting it into a shallow box made of a wood and storing at 0-10 deg.C, preferably at approximately 5 deg.C. By the effect of a tea extract component, especially of a tea polyphenol, it is possible to maintain a fresh state for a long period of time, also there is no falling low by dehydration nor generation of unnatural taste, and a sweet taste peculiar to the sea urchin can be increased. Further, a dehydration (effluence of its content liquid) caused by an osmotic pressure is suppressed. |