House Food Industrial Company Limited

Yoshimasa Fujii

Ko Sugisawa

Masanori Yamamoto

Ryusuke Nakanaga

Tamotsu Kamoda

Fumio Matsui

Shozo Sugano

Yoshitaka Hirano

Yozo Yamamoto

Makoto Nakahara

Nobuji Takeda

The present invention relates to a container packed with instant food to be cooked by a microwave oven which allows a solid instant food such as instant chow mein and instant macaroni to be reconstituted to its original cooked state with good texture in a short period of time when the food is cooked in a microwave oven without the need to drain water after it is cooked. The container packed with instant food comprises: a container composed of a container body and a lid which is capable of tightly or substantially tightly sealing said container; and a solid instant food accommodated in said container, wherein said food is to be reconstituted and made ready for eating on absorbing water when said container packed with said food is heated in a microwave oven after water is added thereto in an amount equivalent to between 100 and 155 wt % of the water absorption capacity of said food.

Container packed with instant food for use in microwave oven

A method for producing dried instant noodles containing less than 15% moisture as a final product. It is characterized by dehydrating raw noodles containing 35-45% moisture using super-heated steam and adjusting evaporation of water from the noodles at the rate of 0.25-1.00 g/second per 100 g of the raw noodles.

Method of preparing dried noodles

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Yamatokooiriyama, Japan

Yoshimasa Fujii