摘要 |
PURPOSE:To provide a hygroscopically collapsible shaped food composed of a specified puffed material prepared by blending dried ingredients with a readily water-soluble food and capable of providing an ingredient-containing liquid food such as soup, miso soup, clear soup, stew and juice in a short time only by poucing water or hot water thereinto. CONSTITUTION:This hygroscopically collapsible shaped food 1 is composed of a puffed material 2 prepared by blending dried ingredients 3 reduced in water content to <=a metastable bonding water level with a readily water-soluble food containing the dried ingredients adhering thereto and having many voids 6 in the inside. This puffed material has capillaries 5 extending from the voids to the surface and a coating film 4 on the surface of the upper plane 9. The side plane 7 and the bottom plane 8 are not coated and it is dried to 0.7 water activity. |