RICE GRUEL FOR PERSON DIFFICULT IN MASTICATION AND DIGLUTITION

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prepare rice gruel for a person difficult in mastication and diglutition enabling the sure protection of miss swallowing and at the same time capable of adjusting hardness, coagulation property and adhesivity corresponding to the person difficult in mastication and diglutition in the most suitable state. SOLUTION: This rice gruel for a person difficult in mastication and diglutition is produced in a shape of a gel in which the hardness is set in the range of 5×10<2> N/m<2> to 5×10<4> N/m<2> as the whole rice gruel including rice grains and thin rice gruel, and at the same time the thin rice gruel is made more resistant to be separated from the rice grains when compared with an ordinary rice gruel by coagulating or thickening the thin rice gruel with either of a coagulant of a thickener to wrap the rice grains.