摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a process for producing rice flour usable as a substitute for wheat flour and provide a processed food produced by using the rice flour. SOLUTION: Rice such as unpolished rice, polished rice, rice screenings, rice of old crop or minimum access rice is immersed in a treating solution composed of an aqueous solution of an organic acid selected from sodium citrate, sodium lactate, sodium malate, sodium acetate, etc., or a combination of two or more of the above compounds. The immersed rice is dehydrated, milled and dried to obtain the objective rice flour. |