PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To identify such a product that a dog eats by preference, is appropriately soft and easily digestible, is beautiful in color/appearance, and can enhance consumers willingness to buy, and to establish a technique to manufacture such a product in order to dry meat and make it commercially available.SOLUTION: The operation, in which meat having a thickness of 5 to 15 mm or meat that is cut in the thickness is processed with edible and non-volatile alcohols under vacuum and then the vacuum is broken, is repeated three or more times, and then the meat is dried with hot-air until moisture equilibrium is reached under normal conditions.SELECTED DRAWING: NoneCOPYRIGHT: (C)2016,JPO&INPIT【課題】 肉類を乾燥製品化するについて、犬が好んで食べ、かつ適度に柔軟で消化によく、色彩・外観が秀麗で、消費者の購買意欲を促進するような製品を特定することと、そのような製品を製造しうる技術を確立すること。【解決手段】厚さ5~15mmの、あるいはそのように切断した肉類を可食性で不揮発性のアルコール類とともに真空処理/真空破りの操作を3回以上反復してから通常の条件で平衡水分になるまで熱風乾燥する。【選択図】なし
