To provide a sterilization method of food capable of surely conducting sterilization of foods and sufficiently suppressing generation of unpleasant odor such as stuffy odor.SOLUTION: A method consists of a housing process for housing foods in a housing container having a recess shaped food housing part, a sealing process for sealing the food housing part, and a sterilization process for heating the sealed housing container at a prescribed temperature for prescribed time to sterilize the foods, in which the food housing part has porosity of 10% or more when housing foods.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1【課題】 食品の殺菌を確実に行うことができ、かつ、ムレ臭等の不快臭の発生を十分に防止することができる食品の殺菌方法を得ること。【解決手段】凹所状の食品収納部を有する収納容器に食品を収納する収納工程と、次に前記食品収納部を密封する密封工程と、次に密封した収納容器を所定時間所定温度で加温し、前記食品を殺菌する殺菌工程とで構成され、前記食品収納部は、食品を収納した際に、１０％以上の空間率を有することを特徴とする。【選択図】 図１
