Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd.

Shoji Wakao

Masanori Hattori

Kazuyoshi Sotoyama

Hideo Shidara

Mamoru Tomita

Yusuke Miyazaki

Motokazu Kikuchi

Masato Endo

Manabu Suzuki

Kenji Mizuguchi

Nobuyuki Motoyoshi

Ryozo Watanabe

The present invention provides acidic drinks that contain a tofu puree and have improved texture and flavor, namely acidic drinks that compound, as a raw material, a tofu puree having the following physicochemical properties: a) having a viscosity of 20 to 3,000 mPa&#xb7;s, b) having a dynamic storage modulus of 0.2 to 600 Pa, c) having a dynamic loss modulus of 0.2 to 250 Pa, and d) containing particles having an average particle diameter of 2 to 15 &#x3bc;m, and a 90% particle diameter of 35 &#x3bc;m or less. According to the present invention, it is possible to manufacture and provide acidic drinks of a novel type having an excellent texture and a favorable flavor, which cannot be expected with conventional products, and being free from the separation of the components during storage.

Acidic drinks containing tofu puree

The aim is to effectively remove the unpleasant raw odor that is characteristic of soybeans and provide a high quality processed soybean food product. In a production method for processed soybean food products that includes a grinding step (A) in which raw soybeans are ground to obtain a soybean slurry and a heating step (B) in which the obtained soybean slurry is heated and thermally denatured, a deaeration step (C) for removing air bubbles mixed in with the soybean slurry is performed partway through the heating step (B). It is preferable that the heating step (B) and the deaeration step (C) are performed continuously.

Production method for processed soybean food products and apparatus for thermal deaeration of soybean slurry

In a production method for processed soybean food products that includes a grinding step (A) in which raw soybeans are ground to obtain a soybean slurry and a heating step (B) in which the obtained soybean slurry is heated and thermally denatured, a deaeration step (C) for removing air bubbles mixed in with the soybean slurry is performed partway through the heating step (B). These steps can be effectively performed using a soybean slurry thermal deaeration device provided with a first heating apparatus for raising the temperature of the soybean slurry to a predetermined intermediate temperature; a deaeration apparatus and a second heating apparatus for completing the thermal denaturation by further heating the soybean slurry once it has been deaerated in the deaeration apparatus

The purpose is to provide noodles having excellent texture and good taste that contain tofu puree having specific physicochemical properties, and relates to noodles containing tofu puree having the following physicochemical properties: a) viscosity of 20 to 3,000 mPa&middot;s, b) dynamic storage modulus of 0.2 to 600 Pa, c) dynamic loss modulus of 0.2 to 250 Pa, and d) the average particle diameter of particles contained in the tofu puree of 2 to 15 &mgr;m and the 90% particle diameter of the particles of 35 &mgr;m or smaller.

Noodles containing tofu puree

A soybean curd puree which can be applied to various foods and are useful for expansion of applications of soybean milk, and a process and apparatus for preparing the same, and the apparatus includes a system in which a raw material tank, heating apparatus, a holding pipe, first emulsifying dispersion apparatus, cooling apparatus and second emulsifying dispersion apparatus are arranged in that order, and coagulant supply apparatus connected between the heating apparatus and the holding pipe, and the process includes adding the coagulant to the soy milk, holding the temperature thereof at 40 to 90&deg; C. to form a coagulated product, pre-crushing the product by the first emulsifying dispersion apparatus, followed by cooling to 10 to 35&deg; C., and crushing the product by the second emulsifying dispersion apparatus into particles having the average particle diameter of 2 to 15 &mgr;m and 90% particles diameter of not more than 35 &mgr;m.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Shoji Wakao