| 摘要 |
PURPOSE:To prepare an expanded food having uniform and porous texture with thin cell wall, giving crispy feeling to the palate, meltable easily in the palate, and having excellent preservability, by adding and mixing ethanol to the edible powder used as a raw material, and expanding the mixture. CONSTITUTION:Edible powder composed mainly of the starch of cereals, potato, etc. is added with 1-30wt%, preferably 2-10wt% ethanol, and then with water in an amount to give a mixture having a water-content of 10-40wt%. The mixture is subjected to the heating and pressing treatment with e.g. an extruder at 40-80 deg.C and 2-40kg/cm<2> pressure, and then release to the low-pressure atmosphere to effect the expansion of the mixture. |
