PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase the sensation strength of a gel-like food regarding its smell and taste, while reducing the amount of flavor components used, reducing costs, and increasing the sensation strength of flavors so as to enhance eating behavior and increase and maintain a feeling of fullness.SOLUTION: A two-phase gel-like food is produced in which, in a gel forming one or more kind of continuous phase, one or more kind of gel with different taste, smell and texture (physical properties of the gel) is dispersed as a dispersed phase without being mixed therewith. Then flavor components are concentrated in the gel of the dispersed phase so as to increase the sensation strength. Further, the weight ratio of the gel of the dispersed phase to the total amount of the multiple-phase gel-like food and differences in physical properties between the gel of the continuous phase and the gel of the dispersed phase are strictly controlled.COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT【課題】 ゲル状食品の香りや味の感覚強度を増強し、香味成分の使用量低減、コスト抑制や香味の感覚強度の増強による摂食行動の亢進および満腹感の増加、維持を達成する。【解決手段】一種類以上の連続相を構成するゲルに、分散相として味、香り、食感(ゲルの物理的性質)などが異なる一種類以上のゲルを混じり合うことなく分散させた二相ゲル状食品を製造する。このとき、感覚強度を増強するように分散相のゲルに香味成分を集中させ、さらには、多相ゲル状食品の全量に対する分散相ゲルの重量比や連続相ゲルと分散相ゲルの物理的性質の差を厳密に制御する。【選択図】 なし
