KR20090089788A - Jelly food and its manufacturing method - Google Patents

Abstract

In jelly foods containing konjac, it reduces the risk of airway obstruction regardless of the type of encapsulation.

Jelly food 10 has a konjac added jelly (11) containing the konjac powder in the raw material and the granular konjac 12 mixed in the konjac added jelly (11).

Description

Jelly food and its manufacturing method {JELLY FOOD PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME}

The present invention relates to a jelly food containing the konjac added jelly and a method for producing the same.

There are various types of jelly foods, but one of them is a konjac-added jelly, which is sold in a sealed cup size. The konjac-added jelly contains konjac powder as a raw material, and accordingly, a calorie reduction effect per unit weight can be expected. Such konjac added jelly has become a mainstay of jelly food because it can be easily eaten by sucking the konjac added jelly out of a cup by mouth, or by crushing the cup to press the konjac added jelly out of a cup.

However, konjac added jelly is harder and more resilient than konjac-free jelly, so it is hard to chew by squeezing or pressing it out of a cup. As a result, accidental swallowing of konjac-added jelly in the mouth has been accidentally made, causing social problems.

Therefore, Patent Document 1 describes a jelly food cup provided with a linear body crossing the opening. In addition, Patent Document 2 describes a cup for jelly foods in which the inside is divided into a plurality of sections by a partition or the like. By using these cups, the konjac-added jelly that has been sucked out or pushed out of the cup is divided into a plurality of small pieces, thereby reducing the risk of airway obstruction even if the konjac-added jelly is swallowed by mistake without being chewed.

[Patent Document 1] Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 9-323781

[Patent Document 2] Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 10-17068

Konjac jelly is characterized by a texture due to its chewy elasticity. However, since the konjac-added jelly enclosed in the cup as described in Patent Documents 1 and 2 is already divided into a plurality of small pieces at the time of putting in the mouth, the pleasure of chewing the konjac-added jelly and feeling the taste is halved. In addition, since the cup structure is complicated, the manufacturing cost is also increased. Therefore, the problem that the airway in the konjac containing jelly foods may be blocked is required to be solved by the improvement of the jelly food itself, not by changing the encapsulation form.

An object of the present invention is to reduce the risk of clogging the airway regardless of the type of encapsulation by making it easy to chew jelly foods containing konjac itself.

Jelly foods of the present invention for achieving the above object is characterized in that the konjac added jelly mixed with a plurality of particulate solid food.

In the jelly food of the present invention, the particulate solid food may be a particulate konjac. It is preferable that the size of a particulate solid food is 1-6 mm in the maximum length in the cross section which becomes the largest cross-sectional area. Moreover, in order to exhibit the effect of this invention further by mixing a particulate solid food, it is preferable that the ratio of particulate solid food with respect to all the weight of a jelly food is 25 to 60 weight%. Furthermore, it is preferable that the jelly food of the present invention is enclosed in a packaging bag made of a film.

The present invention also provides a method for producing a jelly food comprising a step of mixing a plurality of particulate solid food in a jelly solution containing a gelling agent and konjac powder, and a step of solidifying the jelly solution in which the particulate solid food is mixed.

In the manufacturing method of the jelly food of this invention, a particulate solid food can be made into a granular konjac.

According to the present invention, by incorporating the particulate solid food into the konjac-added jelly, the jelly food is easily crushed by the force of the tongue, and as a result, it is possible to reduce the risk of clogging the airway by swallowing the jelly food as it is. In addition, since the jelly food itself is easy to chew, there is no limitation of the sealed form of the jelly food can use the existing sealed form.

EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION Next, embodiment of this invention is described with reference to drawings.

Referring to Fig. 1, there is shown a jelly food 10 according to one embodiment of the present invention filled and sealed in a packaging bag 5 made of a plastic film. The jelly food 10 contains the konjac added jelly 11 and the plural particulate konjac 12 which are the plural particulate solid foods mixed in the konjac added jelly 11.

The konjac-added jelly 11 is made using the same raw material as the raw material used for normal jelly, such as a gelling agent, except it contains a konjac powder, and becomes solid by the action of a gelling agent. By containing the konjac powder, the konjac added jelly 11 has a high elasticity and unique chewing taste.

The granular konjac 12 is formed of a conventional konjac in the form of granules, and the konjac powder dissolved in konjac powder in 40 to 50 times of water in a weight ratio, for example, is mixed with coal water to form a konjac mixed dough. It can obtain by solidifying by this. You may add starch to konjac paste. By adding starch, water is inhibited from the particulate konjac 12 and the form of the particulate konjac 12 is not destroyed. As for the addition amount of the starch in the granular konjac 12, 1-10 weight% is preferable.

The granular formation of the granular konjac 12 may be obtained by cutting the konjac formed into a block into a granular form with a knife or the like, by pressing the konjac mixed dough into a hole to make it into a granular material, putting it into warm water and solidifying it with warm water. You can also get

Although the shape of the particulate Konjac 12 is not specifically limited, It can be set as arbitrary shapes, such as spherical shape, a rectangular parallelepiped, and a polyhedron shape. In addition, the size of the granular konjac 12 is preferably 1 to 6 mm in the maximum length (corresponding to the diameter when the shape of the granular konjac 12 is spherical) in the cross section at which the cross-sectional area is maximum, and more preferably. 2 to 4 mm. If the size of the particulate konjac 12 is too large, discomfort is likely to occur in the neck when the particulate konjac 12 is swallowed as it is, and if it is too small, the effect of the particulate konjac 12 described later is expressed. Will not be.

The granular konjac 12 is dispersed and mixed in the konjac-added jelly 11, and at least a part of the surroundings is covered with the konjac-added jelly 11 so as to be held in the konjac-added jelly 11. In this form, the konjac-added jelly 11 is solidified after the particulate konjac 12 is mixed.

The ratio of the particulate konjac 12 to all the weight of the jelly food 10 is preferably 25 to 60% by weight, more preferably 30 to 50% by weight. If the proportion of the particulate konjac 12 is too large, the konjac-added jelly 11 may not sufficiently hold the particulate konjac 12, and the particulate konjac 12 may overflow when the packaging bag 5 is opened. . On the other hand, when the ratio of the particulate konjac 12 is too small, the effect by the particulate konjac 12 mentioned later will not be expressed.

The packaging bag 5 is preferably sized such that the jelly food 10 enclosed therein can be eaten in one bite, for example, a content of 10 to 30 ml. The shape of the packaging bag 5 is arbitrary, and, for example, a pillow packaging bag, a three-side seal bag, a four-side seal bag, etc. can be mentioned when classifying by the seal system. As needed, the cutout part 5a for opening may be formed in the packaging bag 5.

Bags jelly food 10 can be prepared, for example, as follows.

First, a konjac-added jelly solution containing a gelling agent and konjac powder is prepared as in the case of making a konjac-added jelly. In addition to the gelling agent and the konjac powder, a konjac-added jelly solution can be added sugars, fruit juices, flavorings, acidulants, coloring agents and the like as necessary. In this konjac-added jelly solution, particulate konjac 12 is mixed with particulate solid food. In the mixing of the konjac-added jelly solution and the granular konjac 12, a mixer may be used to make the particulate konjac 12 dispersed in the konjac-added jelly solution.

Next, the konjac-added jelly solution which mixed the granular konjac 12 was sterilized. Sterilization is preferably performed using a tube type heat sterilization apparatus in which the konjac-added jelly solution contains particulate konjac 12 which is a solid content. Sterilization conditions can be 120-140 degreeC, for example for about 3 minutes.

The konjac-added jelly solution after the sterilization is finished is cooled to about 60-70 ° C. by a cooling device and packed in a packing using a suitable filling packing machine. The filling package is preferably a sterile filling package which performs the packaging in a sterile environment using the sterilized contents and the sterilized packaging material.

After the filling package, the packaged konjac added jelly solution is cooled to 25 ° C. or lower and solidified. As a result, the granular konjac 12 is maintained in the konjac-added jelly 11 as shown in FIG. 1, so that the jelly food 10 enclosed in the packaging bag 5 can be obtained.

It is one feature that the bite-sized jelly food 10 as described in the present embodiment can be easily eaten regardless of time or place. Therefore, such a general jelly food is prepared with acidity (pH 4 or less) so that it can be stored at room temperature, and as a result, the taste of the jelly food is limited to fruit flavor and the like. However, since it is possible to preserve at room temperature by aseptic filling packaging as described above, it is not necessary to make the jelly food 10 (hence the konjac-added jelly solution) to be acidic, such as coffee flavor, cocoa flavor, black tea flavor, milk flavor, Arbitrary taste, such as caramel flavor, can be used.

In the jelly food 10 of the present embodiment, a plurality of granular konjac 12 is interposed in the konjac-added jelly 11 mass, whereby the substantial thickness of the layer of the konjac-added jelly 11 becomes thin. Furthermore, the granular konjac 12 is not completely integrated with the konjac added jelly 11, but is surrounded by the konjac added jelly 11 and retained in the konjac added jelly 11. ) Can be separated from the konjac-added jelly (11).

Therefore, when the compressive force is applied to the jelly food 10 of the present embodiment, slippage occurs between the konjac-added jelly 11 and the granular konjac 12, which is broken down compared with the conventional jelly food made of konjac-added jelly only. It is easy to lose. Accordingly, the jelly food 10 can be easily crushed by the force of the tongue, as well as easily chewed by the tooth (확보) while ensuring the unique elasticity of the konjac added jelly (11). As a result, the risk that the airway is blocked by accidentally swallowing the jelly food (10) in the mouth is almost eliminated.

On the other hand, the jelly food 10 of this embodiment opens the packaging bag 5 from the cutout part 5a, for example, and presses out from the packaging bag 5 by pressing the outer side of the packaging bag 5 with a finger. edible. Since the packaging bag 5 is made of a film, the force required to press out the encapsulated jelly food 10 is very small compared to the cup, and it is also easy to press out the jelly food 10 only by the required amount. Since the jelly food 10 of the present embodiment can be pressed out and chewed only the necessary amount, it does not need to be sucked into the mouth like a conventional konjac-added jelly enclosed in a cup, and the risk of being clogged is extremely small. As described above, the jelly food 10 of the present embodiment reduces the risk of airway obstruction by the jelly food 10 even without using a cup having a special structure as in the prior art. Any form of encapsulation can be used.

The jelly food 10 of this embodiment can be eaten even if it is frozen. Conventional jelly foods consisting only of konjac added jelly is more elastic when frozen, the risk of clogging the airway is higher. On the other hand, in the jelly food 10 of the present embodiment, since the granular konjac 12 is mixed, the konjac added jelly 11 is frozen, so that the effect of elasticity is small, and as a result, the risk of clogging the airway is conventional konjac added jelly. Less than In addition, the jelly food 10 of this embodiment can also be made into the sherbet shape when the jelly food 10 is frozen by adjusting the addition amount of the saccharide of a konjac added jelly solution, for example. In this case, since the jelly food 10 is easily broken by only the force of the tongue, it is possible to reduce the risk of the airway being blocked by the jelly food 10.

As mentioned above, although the jelly food 10 enclosed in the packaging bag 5 was demonstrated to the example, the jelly food which concerns on this invention may be enclosed in a cup. In this case, the cup encapsulating the jelly food does not need to have a structure for dividing the jelly food into a plurality, and may be a general cup. As described above, the jelly food according to the present invention can exhibit an effect that the airway is sufficiently blocked by the structure of the jelly food itself.

In addition, although the above-mentioned embodiment showed the example which mixed the particulate konjac with the particulate solid food, the particulate solid food is not limited to particulate konjac. Examples of particulate solid foods that can be incorporated into konjac added jelly include fruit slices, tapioca and natadecoco. These particulate solid foods may be used individually by 1 type, and may be used in mixture of multiple types. Even in the case of using a particulate solid food other than the particulate konjac, the shape, size and content thereof may be the same as in the case of the particulate konjac.

On the other hand, when the particulate konjac 12 is used as a particulate solid food, the shape is preferably spherical. About 90% by weight or more of konjac is water, and it tends to complete over time. The same applies to the particulate konjac 12 used in the present invention. The water separated from the granular konjac 12 completely covered with the konjac added jelly 11 is trapped in the konjac added jelly 11, but exposed from the konjac added jelly 11 to the packaging bag 5 (or cup). The water separated from the particulate konjac 12 in contact with is accumulated in the packaging bag 5 (or cup). If water accumulates in the packaging bag 5 (or cup), there is a fear that water will stick out at the time of opening. By making the shape of the granular konjac 12 into a spherical shape, the surface area of the granular konjac 12 exposed from the konjac-added jelly 11 becomes small, is separated from the granular konjac 12, and is inside the packaging bag 5 (or cup). Since it becomes small, since the surface area per unit volume becomes small, the quantity of the water isolate | separated from the granular konjac 12 can be minimized.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The front view of the packaging bag which enclosed the jelly foodstuff which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention.

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5 packing bags

10 Jelly Foods

11 konjac added jelly

12 particulate konjac

Claims (7)

Jelly foods characterized in that a plurality of particulate solid foods are incorporated into konjac-added jelly. The method according to claim 1, The granular solid food is a jelly food, characterized in that the granular konjac. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The size of the particulate solid food, jelly food, characterized in that the maximum length in the cross section to the maximum cross-sectional area is 1 ~ 6mm. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, Jelly food, characterized in that the ratio of the particulate solid food to all the weight of the jelly food is 25 to 60% by weight. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, Jelly foods, which are encapsulated in packaging bags made of film. Mixing a plurality of particulate solid foods with a jelly solution containing a gelling agent and a konjac powder, And a process for solidifying a jelly solution in which the particulate solid food is mixed. The method according to claim 6, The particulate solid food is a jelly food manufacturing method, characterized in that the granular konjac.

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