PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide choline highly-containing yeast and choline highly-containing yeast crushed product, which each contains choline in a high concentration differently from conventional yeasts containing the choline in amounts of only about 0.2 mass% per dry yeast cells, is suitable for oral or tube-feeding nutritive composition such as liquid diets, foods or drinks, and for food raw materials, and the like, and does not deteriorate the flavor of a food to which the choline highly-containing yeast or the choline highly-containing yeast crushed product is added to provide a method for producing choline highly-containing yeast, by which the choline highly-containing yeast can efficiently and simply be produced and to provide various kinds of foods, such as liquid feeds and drinks, which enable living bodies to efficiently take and absorb the choline and are high in safety.SOLUTION: In the choline highly-containing yeast, the choline content of cell bodies is at least 2.5 mass% per dry cell bodies.COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT【課題】通常コリンを乾燥菌体当たり0.2質量%程度しか含有していない酵母とは異なり、コリンを高濃度に含有し、流動食、飲食品などの経口経管栄養組成物、食品素材などとして好適であり、しかも添加した食品の風味などを損なうことがないコリン高含有酵母及びコリン高含有酵母破砕物、前記コリン高含有酵母を効率良く簡単に製造可能なコリン高含有酵母の製造方法、並びに、コリンを効率良く生体内に摂取及び吸収することができ、安全性の高い流動食、飲料などの各種の食品の提供。【解決手段】菌体におけるコリン含有量が乾燥菌体当たり少なくとも2.5質量%であるコリン高含有酵母である。【選択図】図6
