PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rice-like food product which offer fewer calories, has a texture similar to rice, and additionally, melts as little as possible upon cooking rice, and to provide a production method of the rice-like food product.SOLUTION: The rice-like food product in the form of rice is obtained by reacting a sol solution in which starch and an alginic acid or its salt are dissolved to water with multivalent cation to obtain a gel, and drying the gel. The production method of the rice-like food product includes a solation process for solating the starch and the alginic acid or its salt, a gelation process for gelling the sol, a drying process for drying the gel, and a shaping process for shaping the dried gel into the form of rice.COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT【課題】低カロリーであり、食感が米に近く、さらに炊飯の際に溶け出しが可及的に少ない米様食品及びその製造方法を提供する。【解決手段】澱粉とアルギン酸又はその塩とを水に溶解させたゾル溶液を多価陽イオンと反応させてゲル化物を得て、そのゲル化物を乾燥させた米状の米様食品である。また、澱粉と、アルギン酸又はその塩とをゾル化させるゾル化工程と、前記ゾル化物をゲル化させるゲル化工程と、前記ゲル化物を乾燥させる乾燥工程と、米状に成形する成形工程とを備えたことを特徴とする米様食品の製造方法である。【選択図】なし
