Method of producing a dehydrated food product
AssigneeHouse Food Industrial Company Limited
InventorsKo Sugisawa, Yasushi Matsumura, Kazumitsu Taga, Ryuichi Hattori
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Abstract
A method of producing a dehydrated food product capable of rehydration to produce reconstituted food of good quality which comprises applying microwave radiation to the food received in a container with a lid, or which comprises rotating a container in which the food is received and applying microwave radiation to the food received in the container. The dehydrated food product produced in accordance with the above methods is useful as an ingredient for use in instant food and as snack food.
Claims12
A method for producing a dehydrated porous seasoned food product useful as an ingredient of instant food and as snack food, comprising the steps of:
- placing seasoned food to be dried in an elongated container having partition walls for dividing the interior area into a plurality of compartments and having a microwave-permeable and gas-permeable bottom wall;
- covering said elongated container with a lid having microwave-permeable and gas-permeable properties;
- and thereafter
- applying microwave radiation to said seasoned food contained in said compartments under reduced pressure while rotating said container held by a horizontal shaft with the rotary motion of said horizontal shaft to uniformly dehydrate the seasoned food.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.