PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mulberry leaf processed product having natural clear green color, capable of being used as drinking and eating products, capable of being easily molten to hot water and water to exhibit the natural clear green color derived from a mulberry leaf, and causing reduced odor and acrid taste unique to the mulberry leaf, and causing preferable throat feeling when it is drunk as a tea.SOLUTION: A mulberry leaf processed product is produced by steaming a raw mulberry leaf with steam of 98-100°C, then steaming it with steam of 200-300°C for performing fixation. The mulberry leaf subjected to the fixation, is dried by unbinding with hot wind without kneading. The dried mulberry leaf is pulverized. Powder of the pulverized mulberry leaf is granulated for making it a granule state. Among the granules, granules having grain diameter in a range of 4-85 μm are 90 mass% or more.COPYRIGHT: (C)2015,JPO&INPIT【課題】飲用や食用として利用することができ、湯水に簡単に溶けて利用しやすく、その色と、それを湯水に溶かした桑葉茶の色、すなわち桑葉由来の緑色が自然な明るい緑色であり、桑葉特有の臭いやえぐみが低減され、茶として飲んだときの喉越しも良い桑葉加工品を提供する。【解決手段】桑葉加工品は、生の桑葉を、まず98℃~100℃の蒸気で蒸し、その後200℃~300℃の蒸気で蒸して殺青をし、該殺青をした桑葉を、揉むことなく熱風で解しながら乾燥させ、該乾燥させた桑葉を粉砕し、該粉砕した桑葉の粉を造粒し顆粒状にして得られるものであり、4~85μmの粒径を有する顆粒が90重量%以上である。【選択図】図3
