PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a shape-retaining agent for cooked rice that can easily make the shape of a rice ball or the like retained even for a cooked rice in which a cooking that makes rice grains such as fried rice, pilaf, or garlic rice hard to bind with each other, is applied, and to provide a shape-retaining method for cooked rice.SOLUTION: Provided are: a shape-retaining agent for cooked rice, containing a wheat protein as an active ingredient； and a shape-retaining method for cooked rice comprising adding said shape-retaining agent for cooked rice to a cooked rice.SELECTED DRAWING: NoneCOPYRIGHT: (C)2019,JPO&INPIT【課題】炒飯やピラフ、ガーリックライス等の米粒同士が結着しにくい調理を施した米飯類であっても、おにぎり等の形状を容易に保持させることができる米飯類用保形剤および米飯類の保形方法を提供する。【解決手段】小麦蛋白質を有効成分として含む米飯類用保形剤および前記米飯用保形剤を米飯類に添加することを含む米飯類の保形方法である。【選択図】なし
