PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cream-like food composition which contains gallate-type catechin but is reduced in its bitter/astringent taste, which contains collagen but is free from its smell and/or unpleasant taste, which is excellent in health promoting effect and beauty effect, and which has sensual cream-like properties but does not have fat content at all or is notably reduced in the fat content: and to provide a method for producing the cream-like food composition.SOLUTION: A cream-like composition contains (A) 0.3-8.0 wt.% of gallate-type catechin and/or tannic acid, (B) 1.0-16.0 wt.% of water-soluble collagen having an average molecular weight of ≥4,000, (C) 0.7-8.0 wt.% of gum arabic and (D) 50-80 wt.% of sugar comprising di- or mono-saccharide, and has a moisture value of 13-23 wt.% and a specific gravity of 0.5-1.1.COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT【課題】ガレート型カテキンを含有しながらその苦渋味が低減され、コラーゲンを含有しながらその臭みや不快味がなく、健康増進効果及び美容効果に優れ、しかもクリーム様の官能特性を有しながら、脂肪分を全く含有していない又は顕著に脂肪分が低減されたクリーム様食品組成物及び該クリーム様食品組成物の製造方法を提供すること。【解決手段】(A)ガレート型カテキン及び/又はタンニン酸を0.3~8.0重量%、(B)平均分子量4,000以上の水溶性コラーゲンを1.0~16.0重量%、(C)アラビアガムを0.7~8.0重量%、(D)二糖以下の糖質を50~80重量%含有し、水分値が13~23重量%、比重が0.5~1.1の範囲にあるクリーム様食品組成物。【選択図】なし
