PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an unrefined sweetener high in nutritive value and satisfactory in flavor.SOLUTION: Provided is a method for producing a sweetener comprising: a gelatinization step where germinated brown rice is gelatinized and a saccharization step where the gelatinized germinated rice is added with malt and/or rice malt, and the same is saccharized. The method may include a heating step where the saccharized matter obtained in the saccharization step is heated and is boiled down till it is made into a candy shape as well. The method may include a pulverization step where the germinated brown rice is pulverized before the gelatinization step as well. The method may include a germination step where the brown rice is germinated before the gelatinization step as well.SELECTED DRAWING: NoneCOPYRIGHT: (C)2018,JPO&INPIT【課題】 未精製で栄養価が高く、風味が良好な甘味料を提供する。【解決手段】 本発明の甘味料の製造方法は、発芽玄米を糊化させる糊化工程と、糊化した発芽玄米に麦芽および/または麹を添加して糖化させる糖化工程とを含み、糖化工程で得られた糖化物を加熱して飴状になるまで煮詰める加熱工程をさらに含んでもよく、糊化工程の前に、発芽玄米を粉砕する粉砕工程をさらに含んでもよく、糊化工程の前に、玄米を発芽させる発芽工程をさらに含んでもよい。【選択図】 なし
