PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a quality improver for a fried food, capable of sustaining a crispy feeling of coating and a juicy feeling of ingredients even after a lapse of time after fried or heated with a microwave oven, and to provide a fried food obtained by using the improver. SOLUTION: This quality improver for a fried food is provided so as to solve the above problems through using for the coating an egg white powder with an average particle diameter of <=20 &mum.