PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a deep-fried food satisfying both operability when producing the deep-fried food, and the improvement of palate feeling such as crispy feeling of coating and outer appearance such as a shape of coating, and retaining palate feeling just after producing even in re-heating by microwave cooking after preserving at normal temperature, chilling temperature or freezing temperature to be excellent in resistance to change with the lapse of time.SOLUTION: A deep-fried food coating composition includes compressed processed starch obtained by compressing processing starch. The deep-fried food using the composition is also provided.COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT【課題】揚げ物製造時の作業性と衣のサクサク感などの食感や衣の形状などの外観の向上を両立し、かつ常温、チルドまたは冷凍保存後の電子レンジ調理などの再加熱についても製造直後の食感を保持できる、経時変化耐性に優れた揚げ物類を提供する。【解決手段】澱粉を圧縮処理して得られた圧縮処理澱粉を含有する揚げ物衣用組成物、およびこれを使用した揚げ物食品。【選択図】なし