Process for preparing a sarcocarp-containing jelly

Abstract

A process for preparing a sarcocarp containing jelly having homogeneously dispersed sarcocarps by (a) dissolving starting materials for the manufacture of a jelly, other than gelling agents and sarcocarps, in water to prepare a syrup; (b) preparing an isotonized mixture (B) comprising isotonized sarcocarps and the syrup, by adding sarcocarps to the syrup to form a mixture (B) and heating the mixture (B) to pasteurize said mixture; (c) preparing a solution (A), with a specific gravity and in an amount necessary for the preparation of a liquid portion having a specific gravity substantially equal to that of the isotonized sarcocarps contained in the isotonized mixture (B), of a compounded mixture prepared by mixing the solution (A) with the isotonized mixture (B), wherein said solution (A) is prepared by heating an aqueous solution of starting materials containing gelling agents but not acidic constituents or the sarcocarps, and wherein the aqueous solution of starting materials has approximately a neutral pH for pasteurization; and (d) mixing the solution (A) with the isotonized mixture (B) at a temperature of not lower than the gelling temperature of the compounded mixture of the solution (A) and the isotonized mixture (B), and rapidly cooling the compounded mixture to solidify said mixture before reisotonizing the sarcocarps contained therein to the osmotic pressure of the liquid portion of the compounded mixture.