PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a processed food for persons having difficulty in chewing and persons having slight difficulty in chewing, and to provide a method for measuring texture by which physical properties thereof can accurately be evaluated.SOLUTION: The processed food for the persons having the difficulty in chewing and the persons having the slight difficulty in chewing is provided with: a step of mincing a food material a mixing step of adding and mixing at least starch, oil-and-fat, thickening polysaccharides and water to the food material, and providing a mixed material a molding step of forming the mixed material into a prescribed shape, and affording a mixed molded material and a heat-treating step of subjecting the mixed molded material to a heat treatment, and providing an edible form. The processed food such as meat, including fishes and shellfishes usually used for cooking, vegetables, beans, and Tofu is used as the food material.COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT【課題】咀嚼困難者及び軽度の嚥下困難者用加工食品と、その物性を正確に評価することができるテクスチャー測定法を提供する。【解決手段】食材をミンチ状にする工程と、食材に少なくとも澱粉と油脂と増粘多糖類と水とを添加混合し、混合材を得る混合工程と、混合材を所定の形状に形成し、混合成形品を得る成形工程と、混合成形品に対して、加熱処理を施し喫食可能な形態とする加熱処理工程とを備え、食材としては、通常調理に用いられる魚介類を含めた食肉、野菜、豆類、豆腐などの加工食品を使用し、咀嚼困難者及び軽度の嚥下困難者用加工食品。【選択図】図1
