PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a snack excellent for health maintenance, having sufficient palatability as the side dish of a meal, alcoholic drink, and tea so as to cause good appetite for the snack, capable of preventing a wide variety of diseases.SOLUTION: A lateral root 1B of rhubarb grown to a proper size is washed and immersed in an alkali aqueous solution with a specified concentration and in a saline solution with a specified concentration, so that bitter components and traditional Chinese medicine components are diluted. The lateral root 1B is then boiled or fried with a seasoning, or applied with a seasoning 5A so as to be baked. The resulting snack 5 has an active water fraction of 0.6 to 0.8.COPYRIGHT: (C)2015,JPO&INPIT【課題】食事や飲酒或いはお茶受けとして十分な旨さにより積極的に摂取させ、広範囲に亘る疾病予防の可能な健康維持に優れるつまみの提供。【解決手段】適宜の大きさに成長したルバーブの枝根1Bを洗浄のうえ所要濃度のアルカリ水溶液と所要濃度の食塩水に浸漬して苦み成分と漢方成分を希釈させ、調味料により煮付け、炒成若しくは調味料5Aを塗着焼成し、その活性水分率を0・6~0.8に保持させるつまみ5。【選択図】図6
