PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technology for suppressing harsh taste sensed when a vegetable beverage is taken while keeping delicacy of the vegetable contained in the vegetable beverage.SOLUTION: Milk sugar is added to a vegetable beverage containing the vegetable as an additive agent. Although harsh taste tends to be sensed, especially when the vegetable beverage of leaf vegetables, root vegetables, fruit vegetables and stalk vegetables are taken, while the harsh taste becomes hard to be sensed when taken if the milk sugar is added. In the vegetable beverage with the milk sugar added so as to make the content of the milk sugar in the vegetable beverage more than 0.05 mass%, less than 4.0 mass%, delicacy of the vegetable is sufficiently kept, and the harsh taste is hard to be sensed when taken.COPYRIGHT: (C)2014,JPO&INPIT【課題】野菜飲料に含まれる野菜の美味しさを活かしつつ、野菜飲料を摂取したときに感じるエグ味を抑える技術を提供する。【解決手段】野菜を含む野菜飲料に乳糖を添加剤として添加する。特に、葉菜類、根菜類、果菜類、茎菜類の野菜飲料を摂取したときにエグ味を感じやすい傾向にあるが、乳糖が添加されていれば摂取時に上記エグ味を感じにくくなる。また、野菜飲料中の乳糖の含有量が0.05質量%以上4.0質量%以下になるように、乳糖が添加された野菜飲料であれば、野菜の美味しさが充分活かされ、摂取時にエグ味を感じにくい。【選択図】なし
