PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a material for instant rice gruel-like foods, which requires only water or hot water to be mixed therein to easily prepare the rice gruel-like food having excellent taste, physical property stability, and chewing-swallowing characteristics.SOLUTION: This material for the instant rice gruel-like foods, which gives the rice gruel-like food having excellent taste, physical property stability and chewing-swallowing characteristics, when the food is prepared, contains, as a main component, 90-40 pts.wt. of pregelatinized rice flour comprising 10-90 pts.wt. of pregelatinized nonglutinous rice and 90-10 pts.wt. of pregelatinized glutinous rice, and 10-60 pts.wt. of starch hydrolysate having DE of 1-24. The material for the instant rice gruel-like foods requires only water or hot water to be mixed therein to easily prepare the rice gruel-like food which has the excellent taste, physical property stability, and chewing-swallowing characteristics, whose calorie or physical properties such as viscosity can be adjusted, and which does not change the state during eating.COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT【課題】水或いはお湯を加えるだけで容易に優れた食味と物性の安定性及び優れた咀嚼・嚥下特性を付与した粥状食品を調製できる即席粥状食品の素を提供すること。【解決手段】α化したうるち米粉10~90部とα化したもち米粉90~10部とを配合したα化米粉90~40重量部と、DE1~24の澱粉分解物10~60重量部とを配合することにより、喫食調製時の食味と物性の安定性及び優れた咀嚼・嚥下特性を付与する即席粥状食品の素を提供する。本発明の即席粥状食品の素により、水或いはお湯を加えるだけで容易に優れた食味と物性の安定性及び優れた咀嚼・嚥下特性を付与した粥状食品を調製することができ、粘度などの物性、又はカロリーを調節することが可能であるとともに、喫食中に状態の変化を生じることがない即席粥状食品を調製することができる。【選択図】なし
