PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a food easy to chew and swallow, while retaining appearance as bread, to a person impaired in a chewing and swallowing function, especially even to a person in an insufficient condition of a chewing and swallowing function, such as an elderly person, a person in illness or a recovery stage, a person leaving an after-effect after illness, and an infant in a weaning stage.SOLUTION: This food is obtained by swelling dough containing &le140 pts.mass of water based on 100 pts.mass of cereals using either or both yeast and an expanding agent, baking treating or heat treating the product, and soaking 50-200 pts.mass of a liquid or gel-like composition in 100 pts.mass of the baking treated or heat treated food so as to give properties with a hardness of 5×104N/m2 or below.COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT【課題】パンとしての外観を維持したまま、咀嚼・嚥下機能の低下した人、特に、高齢者や病時あるいは回復期、あるいは病後の後遺症の残る人、離乳期の乳幼児等の咀嚼や嚥下機能が不十分な状態の人であっても、咀嚼・嚥下容易な食品を提供する。【解決手段】穀粉類100質量部に対し、水の質量140質量部以下を含有する生地をイーストまたは膨張剤のいずれかまたは双方を利用して膨張せしめ、焼成処理あるいは加熱処理を行なうと共に、該焼成処理あるいは加熱処理を行った食品の100質量部に対して、液体あるいはゲル状組成物を50~200質量部浸漬し、硬さが5×104 N/m2以下となる物性を備える。【選択図】なし
