PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing new artificial rice which hardly gets out of shape even if adding water and giving heat, presents taste, flavor, texture and appearance similar to those of natural cooked rice, and has low calorie compared to natural rice, and to provide a raw material for producing the artificial rice.SOLUTION: This method for producing a granular low calorie food material as the artificial rice comprises a process of forming in a granular shape, a composition which contains (a) 50 pts.mass of starch, (b) 0.3-10 pts.mass of trehalose, (c) at least one selected from the group consisting of (c-1) 0.1-15 pts.mass of a gelling agent gelling with bivalent metal ion, and 0.1-3 pts.mass of bivalent metal ion, and (c-2) 0.1-15 pts.mass of a gelling agent gelling by heating or cooling after heating, and (d) 1-25 pts.mass of a white turbidity agent, and which has 15-40 mass% of water, and a process of drying the granular product thus obtained.COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT【課 題】 加水及び加熱を施しても形状が崩れにくく、天然炊飯米と差のない味、香り、食感及び外観を呈し、しかも天然米に比べて低カロリーである新しい人造米を製造する方法及び該人造米を製造するための原料を提供する。【解決手段】(a)澱粉50質量部、(b)トレハロース0.3~10質量部、(c)(c-1)2価の金属イオンによりゲル化するゲル化剤0.1~15質量部、及び2価金属イオン0.1~3質量部、及び(c-2)加熱又は加熱後の冷却によりゲル化するゲル化剤0.1~15質量部からなる群より選ばれる少なくとも1種、並びに(d)白濁剤1~25質量部を含み、水分含有率が15~40質量%である組成物を粒状に成形する工程と、得られた粒状物を乾燥する工程とを含む、粒状低カロリー食品素材の製造方法。【選択図】なし
