JP2020074700A - Food block for person with difficulty in mastication and swallowing - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide foodstuffs for persons with difficulty in mastication and swallowing which are not required to be divided and quantitated in cooking, capable of being arranged to various dishes and easily calculating nutritional values thereof.SOLUTION: A freezing-resistant food block for persons with difficulty in mastication and swallowing is produced that contains a food paste and β-1,3-glucan, wherein, the food block for persons with difficulty in mastication and swallowing is adjusted to a single weight; a content of the food paste in the food block for persons with difficulty in mastication and swallowing is 20 to 80%, and the single weight is 3 to 10 g/piece. Also produced is a food kit for persons with difficulty in mastication and swallowing including the food block.SELECTED DRAWING: None

Description

  TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a food block for a person having a difficulty in chewing and swallowing, which can be easily provided to an elderly person, a patient with an underlying disease, or the like, who has a difficulty in chewing and swallowing, a food kit containing the same, and a method for providing the same.

  BACKGROUND ART Foods for persons with difficulty in chewing and swallowing are known as foods for medical and nursing care (for example, Patent Documents 1 to 3). These foods have a physical property such that a food paste is solidified with a gelling agent or the like, has softness that can be easily crushed in the oral cavity, and is easy to swallow so as not to cause aspiration.

  In recent years, these foods for people who have difficulty swallowing can also be processed and formed by solidifying the paste, which is then distributed in the frozen / refrigerated area. , The ingredients cooked at each nursing care site are combined for further cooking and serving.

  In order to improve the quality of life of the elderly and patients, it is desirable that warm meals be provided while still warm. Even for food for people who have difficulty chewing and swallowing, stewed dishes such as stewed foods and stews are heated until just before serving. Sometimes. Many foods for heat-resistant chewing and swallowing persons, which retain their shape even under such circumstances, have been studied.

  In addition, the shaped processed products for people who have difficulty in swallowing may be packaged as large lumps, and such processed products must be subjected to secondary processing such as cutting into bite-sized pieces when cooking. It was a burden on the site because it did not happen. In addition, when refrigerated and re-frozen uncooked residue, hygiene problems are likely to occur in refrigerated products, and frozen products are repeatedly thawed / frozen, causing physical property problems and affecting the taste and smell. Was there. Moreover, the processed products having problems in hygiene and physical properties can no longer be provided to people who have difficulty in chewing, and must be discarded, which causes a problem of food loss. Further, there is a problem in refrigerated products, such as breakage during cutting due to the peculiar softness of food for people with difficulty in swallowing during cooking or serving.

  In addition, for the elderly and patients who eat, it is often important to manage the nutritional value, and when the commercially available food for persons with difficulty in chewing and swallowing is subjected to secondary processing as described above, the amount cut each time is cut. It was a hassle to measure and calculate the nutritional value.

JP-A-2007-319048 JP-A-2014-236700 International publication WO2017 / 17953 pamphlet

  An object of the present invention is to provide a product and a method thereof that can easily provide food suitable for elderly people and patients with basic diseases such as those who have difficulty in chewing and swallowing at the site of care and nursing. In detail, it contributes to the hygiene aspects such as reduction of on-site work, shortening of cooking time, and reduction of risk of bacterial contamination during cooking, and by providing heat resistance, it keeps its shape after heating and provides it while being warm. A food for a person who has difficulty in chewing and swallowing, and a method for providing the food.

  As a result of intensive studies to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present inventors have processed β-1,3-glucan, in particular, a heat-resistant food for chewing and swallowing persons containing curdlan into blocks of specific weight units. As a result, they have found that the combination of blocks at the time of provision saves the time and effort required for cooking, simplifies the calculation of nutritional value, and expands the menu combinations, thus completing the present invention.

  That is, the present invention provides (1) a food block for a person having a difficulty in chewing and swallowing that has freezing resistance and contains a food paste and β-1,3-glucan, and the food block for a person having a difficulty in chewing and swallowing has a single weight. The food block for a person who has a difficulty in chewing and swallowing and (2) modified starch whose food paste content in the food block for a person who has a difficulty in chewing and swallowing is 20 to 80% and whose single weight is 3 to 10 g / piece. In the food block for a person having a difficulty in chewing and swallowing according to the above (1), and (3) the food block for a person having a difficulty in chewing and swallowing having a freeze resistance containing (3) a food paste and β-1,3-glucan. A kit for food for a person having difficulty chewing and swallowing, characterized in that two or more kinds of blocks having different kinds of the food paste are combined, wherein the food block for a person having difficulty chewing and swallowing is a single product. The food kit for a person having a difficulty in chewing and swallowing, in which the content of the food paste in the food block for a person having a difficulty in chewing and swallowing is 20 to 80% and the single weight is 3 to 10 g, which is adjusted to the weight, and (4) the swallowing The food block for persons with disabilities further includes modified starch, and the food kit for persons with difficulty chewing and swallowing or (5) the food block for persons with difficulty chewing and swallowing retains its shape by heating. The heat-resistant food block for people with swallowing difficulties according to (1) or (2), or the food block for people with swallowing difficulties with chewing according to (3) or (4), or (6) ) The food kit for a person having a difficulty in chewing and swallowing according to the above (3) or (4), further comprising a non-heat resistant food for a person having a difficulty in swallowing that retains its shape by heating.

  Further, the present invention provides (7) the food block for a person having a difficulty in chewing and swallowing according to the above (1) or (2), or the food kit for a person having a difficulty in chewing and swallowing according to any one of the above (3) to (6). A method for providing a food for a person having a difficulty swallowing chewing using the above, and (8) a nutrition provided with a nutritional value storage device that stores the nutritional value data of the food block for a person having a difficulty swallowing a chewing described in (1) or (2) above. In the value management system, the type of the food block for a person who has difficulty swallowing to chew and the step (a) of inputting the weight or the number to be provided, the total nutritional value of the food block for a person who has difficulty swallowing to chew is the nutritional value memory. Difficulty in swallowing according to (7) above, including the step (b) which is calculated by the nutritional value calculation device included in the nutritional value management system based on the information of the device and is shown on the display device of the nutritional value management system. A method for providing food for persons, and (9) a nutritional value management system including a nutritional value storage device that stores the nutritional value data of the food block for people with difficulty chewing and swallowing according to (1) or (2) above, by heating. A non-heat resistant food block for non-heat resistant chewing and swallowing persons including a step (a2) of inputting the type, amount, or nutritional value of the non-heat resistant non-heat resistant chewing and swallowing person Step (b2) in which the total nutritional value of the food is calculated by the nutritional value calculation device included in the nutritional value management system based on the information in the nutritional value storage device, and is displayed on the display device included in the nutritional value management system. The method of providing a food for a person having difficulty swallowing chewing according to the above (8), or (10) the nutritional value calculated in step (b) or step (b2) is calorie, salt, protein amount, lipid, and A method for providing a food for a person having difficulty chewing and swallowing according to the above (8) or (9), which comprises containing one or more kinds of carbohydrates, and (11) heating inside a food warmer for a person having difficulty chewing and swallowing. The method for providing a food for a person having a difficulty in swallowing according to any one of (7) to (10) above, including (12) the chewing according to (11) above, wherein the heating temperature is 60 ° C. or higher. The present invention relates to a method for providing food for a person having difficulty swallowing.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, various menus for a person with a difficulty in chewing and swallowing can be easily cooked in a short time, and the nutritional value of a meal can be calculated without quantifying food ingredients. Therefore, the present invention, while reducing the burden on the cook, has the effect of improving the quality of the meal for those who have difficulty in chewing and swallowing, and also reduces the risk of food poisoning-causing bacteria contamination during cooking, and reduces food loss. Play.

  The food block for people with dysphagia in the present invention refers to a small mass of food for people with dysphagia adjusted to a single weight. The food block for persons with difficulty in swallowing according to the present invention is a mixture of a food paste and β-1,3-glucan, which is molded into a block, and the food paste content is 20 to 80%, There is no particular limitation as long as the weight of each block is adjusted to a constant value within the range of 3 to 10 g. The shape of the block may be a polyhedron such as a rectangular parallelepiped, a cube, a triangular prism, and a tetrahedron, a cylinder, a cone, a rotating body such as a sphere or an ellipsoid, and an indefinite solid shape in appearance. The shape may be. A polyhedron or a cylindrical shape having a low risk of aspiration is preferable, and a rectangular parallelepiped or a cylindrical shape is particularly preferable from the viewpoint of ease of molding. As one aspect, if the side of the bottom of the rectangular parallelepiped is about 2 cm and the diameter of the cylinder is about 2 cm, it is easy to ride on the spoon for care. As another aspect, if one side of the cube is 1 cm or more and less than 2 cm and the side is provided so as to be in the height direction, the size of the cube is easy to eat even for persons with a weakened opening function or opening disorder. ..

  Curdlan, schizophyllan, scleroglycan and the like are known as β-1,3-glucans used as a raw material of the food block for the person having difficulty in swallowing. Among these, curdlan is a heat-coagulable polysaccharide that is often used in foods and can be preferably used in the present invention. As such a curdlan, for example, it can be produced by a microorganism of the genus Alcaligenes or Acrobacterium, but a commercially available product (for example, trade name Curdlan; manufactured by MC Food Specialties Co., Ltd.) is preferably used. You can also The amount of curdlan is 1 to 6% by mass, preferably 1.5 to 5.0% by mass, and more preferably 1.5 to 3.5% by mass, more preferably 1 to 6% by mass with respect to the food block for a person who has difficulty in swallowing. It is more preferably 0.5 to 2% by mass, and particularly preferably 1.675% by mass.

  The raw material food paste is vegetables, fruits, seafood, meats, eggs, dairy products, or, after raw or heating these processed products, they are crushed or ground so as not to form large lumps. It is a pasty food that is soft and has a pleasant texture by being refined by a conventionally known method such as lining. It may also be a pasty food prepared by adding an appropriate amount of water to a powdered product of vegetables or the like. Specifically, vegetables and fruits such as carrots, potatoes, onions, pumpkins, green beans, radishes, taro, sweet potatoes, spinach, komatsuna, cabbage, peppers, burdock, shiitake mushrooms, apples, mandarin oranges, pears, persimmons, strawberries, adzuki beans, etc. , Livestock such as chicken, pork, beef, duck, seafood such as salmon, mackerel, tuna, cod, flounder, thailand, flounder, eel, squid, shrimp, etc. Seasoned vegetables that are processed products of these Examples include pastes such as boiled fish, sautéed meat, meat balls, hamburgers, and fried eggs. One type of food paste can be used as one food block for people who have difficulty swallowing. Further, if necessary, one kind of food block for people with difficulty in swallowing can be made by using food paste of two or more kinds of materials.

  The content of these food pastes is preferably 20 to 80%, and more preferably 40 to 60% in consideration of the taste and nutritional value of the raw material. When the content of the food paste is within this range, the texture of the food paste does not matter, and the taste of the foodstuff is appropriately felt. For example, when using potato, carrot, onion, bell pepper or pork paste, the content of the food paste in the food block is preferably 50% by mass, and when using leaf vegetables such as komatsuna , 40% by mass, and when egg liquid is used, it is preferably 30% by mass.

  The food block for persons with difficulty chewing the present invention, as long as it does not impair the effects of the invention, seasoning, spices, sweeteners and the like for the purpose of seasoning, taste enhancement / masking and texture improvement, and shelf life improvement. Food materials, thickening polysaccharides other than curdlan, dextrin, modified starch, fats and oils, food additives and the like may be added. In particular, it is preferable that the food block for persons with difficulty chewing according to the present invention further comprises modified starch. The modified starch is one obtained by chemically modifying starch obtained from potato, corn, tapioca and the like, and examples thereof include starch acetate, oxidized starch, hydroxypropyl starch, hydroxypropyl phosphate crosslinked starch, and phosphate crosslinked starch, Phosphorylated starch, phosphoric acid monoesterified phosphoric acid cross-linked starch, acetylated phosphoric acid cross-linked starch, acetylated adipic acid cross-linked starch, acetylated oxidative cross-linked starch, sodium octenyl succinate, and the like can be preferably mentioned. Crosslinked starch such as phosphoric acid crosslinked starch and acetylated phosphoric acid crosslinked starch is preferable. Further, the content of the modified starch in the food block for people who have difficulty chewing is more preferably 1 to 10% by mass, more preferably 2 to 6% by mass, and 3 to 5% by mass. Is more preferable, 3 to 4 mass% is more preferable, and 3.325 mass% is particularly preferable.

  The food block for the person having difficulty swallowing the chewing and swallowing of the present invention is a food paste as a raw material, curdlan and water, and food materials and additives optionally added to the other are mixed so as to be homogeneous, and a cup or a food type. And the like, and heated to be solidified. Further, since it has freeze resistance, it may be solidified and then frozen.

  The heating temperature for solidification may be any temperature as long as the gelled food using curdlan is solidified as a gel, but a method of heating to 80 ° C. or higher can be preferably mentioned. Specifically, a steam convection oven, a microwave oven, a steamer and the like can be preferably mentioned as the heating device. In the case of freezing, the food for the person who has difficulty in swallowing due to heating is extracted from a mold such as a cup or food mold and frozen, or it is frozen after being filled in a mold such as a cup or food mold, and then extracted. It can be a food block for people who have difficulty chewing and swallowing. At the time of filling, the food blocks for persons who have difficulty in swallowing can be filled so as to have the same weight, that is, a single weight, so as to have a single weight. In addition, it may be filled in a large mold and then heated and then cut into pieces so that each of the food blocks has approximately the same weight, and then frozen. Alternatively, the large mold may be heated and frozen as it is and then cut into pieces. .. The thus obtained food block for persons with difficulty in swallowing can be circulated in a frozen state as it is, and since it has heat resistance, it can be cooked by heating.

  The single weight of the food block for people who have difficulty swallowing chewing is preferably 3 to 10 g. More preferably, it is 5 to 8 g. If it is 3 g or more, the risk that elderly people / patients with dysphagia will lead to aspiration due to too small food is low, and if it is 10 g or less, a person who has difficulty chewing easily swallows in the oral cavity. If the weight is 10 g or more, a person who has difficulty in chewing cannot eat at once, and it takes time and labor to cut it before the caregiver takes it to the mouth.

  Here, when the material of the food paste that is the raw material of the food block for people who have difficulty chewing and swallowing is different, it is sufficient that the food blocks for people who have difficulty chewing and swallowing have the same single weight, and different food pastes. The food blocks for persons who have difficulty in chewing and swallowing may have different single weights. Here, the equal single weight means within the error range of the following weights.

  Regarding the weights of food blocks for people with dysphagia that are single weights, the weight error that is allowed as an equal weight is ± 10% or less of the average value of the weight of 10 food blocks for people with dysphagia. At the time of calculating the average value, 10 pieces are randomly extracted from the blocks after heating or the blocks after freezing, and are calculated in the state after heating or the state after freezing. That is, the state is not calculated, but the average value is calculated by mixing after heating and after freezing.

  The food kit for people with swallowing difficulties of the present invention is not particularly limited as long as it contains two or more kinds of the food blocks for people with swallowing difficulty of the present invention in combination of 2 or more. A food block for people who have difficulty swallowing can be included.

  The food kit for the person having difficulty swallowing the chewing and swallowing food of the present invention may have a food material block for the person having difficulty swallowing the chewing and swallowing in a packaging material or a container dedicated to the kit. The food blocks for persons having difficulty in chewing and swallowing may be put together into one packaging material or container. When each serving is placed in a dedicated container, it is preferable that the container is heat-resistant because it can be placed in the heating device as it is.

  Further, the combined food block for people with dysphagia may be a plurality of kinds, which may be combined at an equal ratio, and the food block for people with dysphagia containing a specific food paste as a raw material may be a food paste of another kind. It may be contained in a larger ratio than the food block for people with dysphagia which contains as a raw material.

  Further, in the present invention, the food block for a person who has difficulty in swallowing can retain its shape even when heated in the cooking stage. Retaining the shape means that the food block for the person who has difficulty swallowing after chewing cannot stand on its own and does not lose its shape or melt, and keeps its shape without losing its shape, or can stand on its own even if it loses its shape. Refers to the case.

  Here, the heating in the cooking stage is preferably a method in which the whole food block for a person who has a difficulty in chewing and swallowing is heated, and particularly preferably, a temperature-adjustable car, a steam convection oven, or a microwave oven. is there. As the heating temperature, when heated so that the central temperature of the food block for a person who has difficulty in swallowing is 60 ° C. or higher, the elderly person and the patient can eat warm foods while keeping warm, which is preferable. It is particularly preferable that the central temperature is heated to 80 ° C. or higher because it gives warmth like freshly cooked.

Further, the present invention can be combined with a food block for a person having difficulty chewing and swallowing, and can further combine a food for non-heat-resistant chewing and swallowing persons that does not retain its shape by heating. Here, the non-heat resistant food for dysphagia that does not retain the shape by heating is provided in combination with the food block for dysphagia that retains the shape by heating, and the food block for dysphagia Refers to foods that can be seasonings. Examples of non-heat-resistant foods for persons with difficulty in swallowing include roux, sauce, and more specifically, Japanese-style soup bean paste, miso bean paste, tororo bean paste, curry roux, stew, bechamel sauce, domiglas sauce, tomato sauce. , Vinegared pork bean paste sauce, Happo green bean paste sauce, Japanese style simmered sauce, koshi bean sauce sauce, mitarashi sauce, black honey sauce, various fruit sauces, etc., which can be combined in a refrigerated or frozen state. . These non-heat resistant foods for persons with dysphagia preferably have a thickness suitable for those with dysphagia, and more preferably have a viscosity of 15000 mPa.s. When the physical property is s or less or the hardness is 1 × 10 ⁴ N / m ² or less, the risk of aspiration of a person with dysphagia becomes low. When adjusting to a viscosity suitable for a person who has difficulty swallowing chewing, a conventionally known cooking method may be used, or a commercially available thickener or a thickener for a person who has difficulty swallowing may be used.

  Furthermore, for non-heat resistant foods for people with dysphagia that do not retain their shape by heating, the amount of food block for people with dysphagia that is used for one serving is clearly stated or divided by each serving quantity. It is preferably packaged. If one or more of non-heat-resistant food for chewing dysphagia, roux, or sauce is provided in a container together with the food block for chewing dysphagia for a single dose, it can be used for people with dysphagia in the subsequent heating process. It can be heated together with the food block and can be provided together with the food block for the person having difficulty chewing and swallowing, and the combination of only the food block for the person having difficulty chewing and swallowing will expand the variety of menus.

  And this invention also includes the efficient provision method of the food block for persons with difficulty in chewing and swallowing. By using the food block for a person who has a difficulty in chewing and swallowing or the food kit for a person who has a difficulty in chewing and swallowing, a food for a person who has a difficulty in chewing and swallowing can be provided easily. To provide food for people with dysphagia, a food block for people with dysphagia adjusted to a single weight is used to provide food for people with dysphagia It includes a method for providing a food block for a person having difficulty swallowing and a method for providing a food kit for a person having difficulty swallowing a chew, which is provided by using one or more food kits for a person having difficulty chewing and swallowing in a meal for a person having difficulty swallowing. The meal in the present invention includes not only basic three meals such as breakfast, lunch, and dinner, but also snacks and supplementary meals for satisfying nutrition and hunger between the three meals. The food block for people with dysphagia or the food kit for people with dysphagia of the present invention can be used for one or more of the various menus provided in these meals. When provided, it is also included in combination with a food other than the food block for a person having difficulty chewing and swallowing according to the present invention, as long as it does not cause a problem of chewing and swallowing.

Furthermore, the method for providing a food block for a person having a difficulty in swallowing can include calculating the nutritional value of the food for a person having a difficulty in swallowing. The method for providing the present invention is not particularly limited as long as it includes the following steps (a) and (b) or the following steps (a2) and (b2).
(A) Input the type and the weight or the number of food blocks to be provided to a nutritional value management system equipped with a nutritional value storage device that stores nutritional value data of the food block for people with dysphagia. Process of
(B) The total nutritional value of the food block for a person with dysphagia provided is calculated by the nutritional value calculation device included in the nutritional value management system based on the information in the nutritional value storage device, and the nutritional value management system is provided. Displayed on the display device;
(A2) Kind and amount of non-heat resistant food for dysphagia that does not retain its shape by heating in a nutritional value management system including a nutritional value storage device that stores nutritional value data of the food block for people with dysphagia , Or the step of inputting the nutritional value;
(B2) The nutritional value calculation provided in the nutritional value management system based on the information in the nutritional value storage device, in which the total nutritional value of the food block for people with dysphagia A step calculated by a device and displayed on a display device included in the nutritional value management system;

  In the method for providing a food block for a person having difficulty swallowing mastication according to the present invention, a nutritional value management system including a nutritional value storage device that stores the nutritional value data of the food block for a person having difficulty swallowing mastication can be used. The nutritional value storage device may be a storage device such as a hard disk of a personal computer of a hospital, a nursing facility or an individual, a network server, or a server connected to a nutrition information management site established on the Internet. The nutrition information storage device, the nutritional value per single weight or specific weight of the food block for people who have difficulty chewing and swallowing is input by using an input device such as a keyboard of a personal computer or a tablet, and the nutritional value once input. Are stored in the nutritional value storage device unless they are deleted or updated. Examples of the nutritional value management system include Excel Nutrition (Kensha Co., Ltd.), Mr. Known products such as Dateman (Tas) and Nutrition Meister Online (Ines) can be preferably used, and a simple system can be constructed and used by using spreadsheet software such as Microsoft Excel. You can also

  Then, the present invention can include the step of inputting the type and the weight or the number of food blocks to be provided to the nutritional value storage device of the nutritional value management system. The types of food blocks for persons who have difficulty swallowing chewing are the types stored in the nutritional value storage device of the nutritional value management system. When the type of the food block for the person who has difficulty in swallowing is input, the nutrition value may be connected to the nutrition value storage device so that the nutrition value can be newly input.

  Furthermore, the above nutritional value management system is a personal computer or a telecommunication line, and a nutritional value storage device, a search means for searching for the type of food block for a person who has difficulty in chewing and swallowing and a searched person who has a difficulty in chewing and swallowing. The whole food for persons with difficulty in chewing and swallowing is equipped with means for inquiring information on the nutritional value of the food block for use and means for transmitting the input combination information, search results and inquiry results to the nutritional value calculation device. The total nutritional value of can be calculated. Further, it also includes display means for displaying the calculation result on a display device such as a monitor of a personal computer or a tablet.

  The types of food blocks for people with dysphagia provided in combination may be arbitrarily combined according to the patient / elderly person provided, but a small amount is combined to calculate the total nutritional value, and the result May be further combined based on Since the food block for people with swallowing difficulties of the present invention is adjusted to have a single weight, the nutritional deficiency is added in small amounts in addition, and the nutrition per unit weight of the food block for people with swallowing problems is also added. By storing the nutritional value in the nutritional value storage device, the nutritional value can be calculated easily and efficiently.

  In addition, as nutritional value, energy (calorie), protein, lipid, carbohydrate, dietary fiber, sodium, salt equivalent, zinc, iron, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, cholesterol, various vitamins, saturated fatty acid, unsaturated fatty acid, etc. From the viewpoint of nutritional management of elderly people and patients with underlying diseases, at least one selected from energy, protein, lipid, carbohydrate, and salt equivalent is a preferable nutritional value item.

  Further, the method for providing a food block for a person having a difficulty in chewing and swallowing according to the present invention can also include calculating the nutritional value of the non-heat resistant food for a person having a difficulty in chewing and swallowing that is combined with the food block for a person having a difficulty in chewing and swallowing. With regard to the foods for non-heat resistant chewing and swallowing persons to be combined, the type and the nutritional value per provided amount can be input to the nutritional value storage device. The nutritional value storage device is a device similar to the nutritional value storage device for inputting the nutritional value of the food block for people who have difficulty chewing and swallowing. The total nutritional value of and can be calculated by the nutritional value calculation device and displayed.

  Hereinafter, the present invention will be described more specifically with reference to Examples, but the technical scope of the present invention is not limited to these exemplifications.

[Manufacture of food blocks for people who have difficulty swallowing chewing]
(1) Potato block A potato block was produced according to the composition shown in Table 1. The potatoes were boiled and crushed in advance, and mashed potatoes were used as the “potato paste”. Curdlan (manufactured by MC Food Specialties Co., Ltd.) and modified starch (hydroxypropylated phosphate cross-linked starch, manufactured by Nisseki Kagaku Co., Ltd.) were mixed in a dashi stock in advance and prepared by stirring well. Curdlan and soup stock prepared by suspending processed starch were added to the above potato paste, and the mixture was mixed in a mixer and filled in a silicone mold of about 5 g each, and heated in a steam mode of a steam convection oven to a central temperature of 85 ° C. .. After heating, it was frozen in the mold, completely frozen, and then taken out of the mold. The removed potato block for the person who had difficulty in swallowing was adjusted to 5.0 to 5.5 g / piece.
(2) Blocks containing other vegetable pastes According to the formulation shown in Table 1, carrots, onions, bell peppers, and mustard spinach blocks for chewing and swallowing were manufactured. All the vegetables used were boiled in advance and put in a mixer to form a paste. A food block for persons with difficulty in chewing and swallowing was produced by the same procedure as that for the potato block except that the food paste was changed. The obtained blocks for the person who had difficulty in chewing and swallowing were adjusted to 5.0 to 5.5 g / piece.
(3) Pork block A pork block was produced according to the formulation shown in Table 1. Minced pork was prepared by heating it to a core temperature of 80 ° C. or higher and cooling it. Curdlan and soup stock prepared by suspending processed starch were added to the prepared ground meat, and mixed with a mixer to obtain a paste. Subsequent procedures were the same as those for the potato block to obtain a pork block for persons with difficulty in chewing and swallowing. Each of the obtained blocks for persons who had difficulty in chewing and swallowing was adjusted to 5.0 to 5.5 g / piece.
(4) Dashi Rolled Egg Block An egg was thawed, curdlan, dashi in which processed starch was suspended, and other seasonings (sugar, mirin, soy sauce) conventionally used for fried eggs were added and mixed in a mixer. Subsequent procedures were the same as those for the potato block, to obtain a soup stock egg block for persons with difficulty in chewing and swallowing. The obtained rolled egg block for persons with difficulty in chewing and swallowing was adjusted to 5 to 5.5 g.

[Kit of food block for people with difficulty swallowing chewing and manufacturing example of meal using the kit]
The food blocks produced in Example 1 were combined as shown in Table 2 to produce a food block kit for persons with difficulty in chewing and swallowing. Further, using a food block kit for a person who has difficulty swallowing chewing, a side dish which is one kind of meal was prepared.
(1) Curry Kit The curry kit of the combined food block for people who have difficulty chewing and swallowing is placed on a heat-resistant container, and a commercially available curry solid roux (Kokumaro Sweet, manufactured by House Co., Ltd.) is used as a food for people who have difficulty chewing and swallowing. The roux, which had been melted in hot water and adjusted with a thickening agent (Toromiadia, manufactured by Mitsubishi Corporation Foodtech), was placed together, covered with a lid, set in a reheating cart, and heated at 120 ° C. for 35 minutes. The food block for people with difficulty chewing and swallowing the obtained food retains the shape before heating without melting or collapsing after heating, and as a whole, it is used as a curry roux for food for people with difficulty chewing and swallowing. It could be served with curry and served as curry.
(2) Swine and swine kit The swine and swine kit, which is a combined food block for people with chewing and swallowing difficulties, is placed on a heat-resistant container, and non-heat-resistant swine swine sauce is commercially available as food for people with chewing and swallowing difficulty (vinegar pork sauce, MC Food Specialties Co., Ltd.). (Made by) were put together and heated in a microwave oven of 600 W for 1 minute. The food block for people with difficulty swallowing the obtained food maintains the shape before heating without melting or collapsing even after heating, and it can be provided as a side dish pig vinegar for people with difficulty swallowing chewing as a whole. there were.
(3) Meat and potatoes kit Non-heat resistant food for people with dysphagia that is commercially available (boiled sauce, Maruhachi Muramatsu Co., Ltd.) is dissolved in hot water, and thickened with a thickener (Toromiadia, Mitsubishi Foodtec Co., Ltd.). The combined meat / jaw of the food block for people with difficulty swallowing was placed in a heat-resistant container together with the kit, and heated in a steam mode of a steam convection oven at 100 ° C. for 15 minutes. The obtained food block for people with dysphagia maintains the shape before heating without melting or collapsing even after heating, and as a whole it can be provided as a side dish meat potato for people with dysphagia. there were.

[Nutrition calculation of meals using food blocks for people who have difficulty chewing and swallowing]
The nutritional value of the food for persons with difficulty in chewing and swallowing manufactured in (1) to (3) of Example 2 was confirmed using nutrition management software.
Regarding the food block for people with swallowing difficulties manufactured in Example 1, using a personal computer as an input device, the nutritional value per unit weight of 5 g of each food block for people with swallowing difficulty is stored as nutrition management software on a personal computer as a storage device. Entered into the database. The nutritional values entered here are calories, proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, and salt equivalents. Similarly, for commercial curry solid roux, commercial boiled sauce, and commercial vinegared pork sauce, the nutritional value per 100 g was entered based on the labeling of the commercial product.
Table 2 shows the type and number of food blocks for people with dysphagia that were used in the curry kit of Example 2 (1) on the nutrition value calculation screen on the nutrition management software (Excel nutrition, manufactured by Kenshinsha Co., Ltd.) on a personal computer. Entered according to. Furthermore, the amount of curry solid roux on the market, which is a non-heat-resistant food for people who have difficulty swallowing chewing, was entered.
As a result, the total nutritional value of the provided food block for people who have difficulty swallowing chewing and food for non-heat resistant foods for people who have difficulty swallowing mastication is 50 kcal calories, 5 g protein, 0.4 g lipid, 6.1 g carbohydrate, 0.4 g salt equivalent. Met.
As described above, by using the food block for a person having a difficulty in chewing and swallowing, it was possible to easily provide a meal to the person having a difficulty in chewing and swallowing and to efficiently calculate the nutritional value.

  INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY The food block and food kit of the present invention can be used for preparing a meal for a person who has difficulty in chewing and swallowing in the fields of medical care and nursing care.

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A food block for a person with difficulty in chewing and swallowing, which has freezing resistance and contains a food paste and β-1,3-glucan,
The food block for people who have difficulty in swallowing is adjusted to have a single weight, and the food paste content in the food block for people who has difficulty swallowing is 20 to 80%, and the single weight is 3 to 10 g / piece. Food block for people who have difficulty swallowing.   The food block for the person having difficulty chewing and swallowing according to claim 1, further comprising modified starch. In a freezing-resistant food block for persons having difficulty in chewing and swallowing, which comprises food paste and β-1,3-glucan, the food paste is characterized in that two or more kinds of blocks of different kinds are combined. A food kit for people who have difficulty swallowing chewing,
The food block for the person having difficulty chewing and swallowing is adjusted to have a single weight, and the food paste content in the food block for the person having difficulty chewing and swallowing is 20 to 80% and the single weight is 3 to 10 g. Food kit for people with disabilities.   4. The food kit for people with swallowing difficulties according to claim 3, wherein the food block for people with swallowing problems further includes modified starch.   The heat-resistant food block for people who have difficulty swallowing chewing, or the food block for people who have difficulty swallowing mastication, or the food block for people who have difficulty swallowing chewing Food kit for workers.   The food kit for a person having a difficulty in swallowing according to claim 3 or 4, further comprising a non-heat resistant food for a person having a difficulty in swallowing that retains its shape by heating.   A method of providing a food for a person having a difficulty in swallowing using the food block for a person having a difficulty in swallowing according to claim 1 or 2, or the food kit for the person having a difficulty in swallowing a chewing according to any one of claims 3 to 6. The type of food block for a person having difficulty chewing and swallowing, and the weight to be provided to a nutritional value management system including a nutritional value storage device that stores the nutritional value data of the food block for a person having difficulty swallowing swallowing according to claim 1 or 2. Step (a) of inputting the number of pieces,
The total nutritional value of the food block for a person with dysphagia provided is calculated by the nutritional value calculation device included in the nutritional value management system based on the information in the nutritional value storage device, and the display device of the nutritional value management system. Step (b) shown in
A method for providing a food for a person having difficulty chewing and swallowing according to claim 7. A nutritional value management system comprising a nutritional value storage device for storing nutritional value data of the food block for a person having a difficulty in chewing and swallowing according to claim 1 or 2. Including the step (a2) of inputting the type, the amount provided, or the nutritional value,
The total nutritional value of the food block for people with dysphagia provided and the food for non-heat resistant food for people with dysphagia is calculated by the nutritional value calculation device provided in the nutritional value management system based on the information in the nutritional value storage device. (B2) displayed on the display device included in the nutritional value management system
The method for providing a food for a person having difficulty chewing and swallowing according to claim 8.   Difficulty in swallowing according to claim 8 or 9, wherein the nutritional value calculated in step (b) or step (b2) includes any one or more of calories, salt content, protein content, lipids and carbohydrates. For providing personal food.   The method for providing a food for a person having a difficulty in chewing and swallowing according to any one of claims 7 to 10, comprising heating the food for a person having a difficulty in chewing and swallowing in a warmer. The method for providing food for a person having difficulty chewing and swallowing according to claim 11, wherein the heating temperature is 60 ° C or higher.