PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a frozen food hardly diffusing a gustatory substance even after stored frozen, and maintaining a state close to a freshly cooked taste without an off-taste or an unnatural feeling when eaten, and to provide an ingredient for a frozen food used for producing the frozen food.SOLUTION: The ingredient for a frozen food is prepared by incorporating a water soluble gustatory substance and gelatin in a water absorbing food ingredient. The water soluble gustatory substance is a salt. The water absorbing food ingredient is one or more kinds selected from a group consisting of grain flour, starch and dietary fiber.COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT【課題】冷凍保管後にも呈味物質が拡散することが少なく、喫食した場合には異味・違和感なく出来立ての味に近い状態が維持される冷凍食品及び冷凍食品の製造に用いられる冷凍食品用材料の提供。【解決手段】水溶性呈味物質及びゼラチンを、吸水性食材の内部に存在させてなる、冷凍食品用材料。【選択図】なし
