PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an easily chewable cooked food with an excellent nutritive value such as vitamins, dietary fiber or the like, that has excellent taste and texture for keeping and increasing physical strength by maintaining good health, for enabling elderly people, whose biting strength and swallowing ability decline, to easily chew.SOLUTION: The easily chewable cooked food is gelated with coagulant such as gelatin by mixing a plurality of kinds of cooked food which is easily chewable. The cooked food includes raw materials selected from root crops such as carrot, Japanese radish, burdock, lotus root or potato, or includes at least one selected from carrageenan or xanthan gum.COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT【課題】本発明は、噛む力が衰え、飲み込む力も低下した高齢者が咀嚼しやすく、また、健康を維持し、体力を保持・増進できる食味・食感にすぐれ、ビタミン、食物繊維等の栄養価を有する易咀嚼性調理食品及びその製造方法を提供する。【解決手段】 複数種類の咀嚼が容易な調理食品を混ぜてゼラチンなどの凝結剤によりゲル化した易咀嚼性調理食品であって、前記調理食品の原材料に人参、大根、牛蒡、れんこん、いも類の根菜を選び、また、カラギーナン、キサンタンガムの少なくとも1種類を含有することを特徴とする。【選択図】図2
