PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing a hard candy, by which the hard candy enabling the simultaneous taste of flavor peculiar to a fruit and/or a vegetable and the flavor of the hard candy can be mass-produced while keeping high quality.SOLUTION: The method for producing the fruit and/or vegetable-containing hard candy includes: inserting the dry fruit and/or dry vegetable of main raw materials to a twin-screw extruder having screws with groove widths larger than the maximum diameter of the main raw materials at an input port by a rotation-type or vibration-type feeder to provide a processing dough quantitatively extruding the resultant dough into a separately produced hard candy dough to provide a dough forming the resultant dough into a rope shape in the state as it is cutting the formed product while moving the formed product along a shape-keeping stand having a groove the size of which is nearly equal to the diameter of the formed product by a rotary blade or a vibration blade into small fragments so that the ratio of the surface areas of the processing dough to the hard candy dough may be 1:20 to 5:1 and heating the cut product on a transportation conveyor by a warm-air generator or infrared rays to smoothen the edge of the candy formed upon cutting.COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT【課題】果実及び/又は野菜特有の風味とハードキャンディの風味を同時に味わえるハードキャンディを、高い品質を維持しつつ大量に生産可能なハードキャンディの製造方法を提供すること。【解決手段】主原料である乾燥果実及び/又は乾燥野菜を回転型又は振動型のフィーダーにて、その主原料の最大径より大きな溝幅のスクリューを投入口に持った二軸エクストルーダーに投入して得られる加工生地を、別途作製したハードキャンディ生地内に定量的に押出して得られる生地を、この状態のままロープ状の成形物にし、その成形物の直径とほぼ同じ大きさの溝を持った保形台に沿わせて回転刃又は振動刃により、前記加工生地と前記ハードキャンディ生地との表面積比が1:20~5:1である小片に切断し、移送コンベア上で温風発生器もしくは赤外線により加温して、切断時に発生するキャンディの縁を滑らかにする、果実及び/又は野菜含有ハードキャンディの製造方法。【選択図】図1
