JP4904147B2 - Packaged instant food, set of packaged instant food and cup-shaped container, and cooking method thereof - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a packaged instant food in which an instant food is enclosed in a soft wrapping material, and is prepared by directly pouring hot water into the soft wrapping material for cooking.

  Instant cup noodles, instant wonton, instant cup soup, etc. are encased in a disposable cup container filled with noodle chunks, ingredients, soup, etc. that can be cooked and eaten simply by pouring hot water It is a highly convenient food. However, since these instant foods in cups are individually packaged in a container for each serving, there is a problem that space is required for storage and sales at retail stores. In addition, since the cup container is disposable, it is extremely excellent in terms of convenience, but there is also an uneconomical aspect, and there is a problem that it is bulky when discarded.

  In view of this, Patent Documents 1 and 2 describe the idea that the cup container is reusable, not disposable, and the instant instant noodle mass and soup are refilled and used. In addition, as such a product, a trade name “magnoodle (manufactured by Nissin Foods Co., Ltd.)” is sold. In this, noodle chunks and soup are individually wrapped in a single serving, and the noodle chunks and soup are transferred to a hand-held mug or the like, and hot water is poured into it for eating. Patent Document 3 discloses a set of instant noodles in which a plurality of individually wrapped noodle chunks and individually wrapped soup are set in one cooking container.

  However, Patent Documents 1 and 2 do not describe specific shapes of instant noodles and cooking containers used in combination with containers to be reused. In addition, since the “magnoodle (trade name)” and Patent Document 3 are individually packaged soup and noodle chunks, each requires a packaging material. It must be troublesome. Furthermore, in addition to the soup and noodle mass, when attaching ingredients similar to the commercially available instant cup noodles, the ingredients also need to be individually packaged.

  On the other hand, instant noodles are enclosed in a bag-shaped soft wrapping material without using a disposable cup container, and hot water is poured into the soft wrapping material to restore and eat it. Is described in Patent Document 4. However, the instant noodles of Patent Document 4 are noodles, soups and ingredients that are fragile due to vibration in the package, and the ingredients move to the bottom of the package and look bad, and the soup moves to the bottom of the package. Hot water is poured through the noodle chunks, so the soup is difficult to melt and is likely to become lumpy. Furthermore, in the case of instant noodles of Patent Document 4, it is difficult to hold a container after pouring hot water and it is difficult to hold the container.

JP 2002-59883 A JP 2002-320455 A Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 51-97587 Utility Kaihei 6-91565

  In the present invention, as in the case of commercially available instant foods in cups, the contents of the instant food can be restored and eaten simply by pouring hot water, yet unlike conventional cup-type instant foods, It was an object to provide an instant food that can reduce the bulk of the packaging material to be discarded as much as possible without being discarded.

  Therefore, the present inventors, in response to the problem, wrap the instant noodle chunks, soup, and ingredients in one bag-like packaging material for refilling, and in a separately prepared cup container for this refilling I thought about cooking and eating by emptying instant noodle chunks and pouring hot water into it. However, in this case, the noodles are covered with soup and handling during cooking is poor, so if the soup falls to the bottom of the cup container, the soup becomes dull during cooking, and the ingredients fall to the bottom of the container and look good during cooking. There were problems such as bad. Furthermore, when the noodle mass is made to be the size of one regular instant noodle, the noodle mass is likely to move and break in the package, and when cooking it with a hand-held mug, etc., the noodles will not return to hot water. There was a case.

  That is, the present invention solves such problems, and restores the instant food of the contents by simply adding hot water like the above-mentioned problem, that is, a commercial cup-containing instant food. An object of the present invention is to provide an instant food that can reduce the bulk of the packaging material that can be discarded without discarding the cup container.

In response to the above problems, the present inventors store the following packaged instant foods in a cup-like container separately prepared together with the package, cook hot water in the package body, This was solved by removing the package from the cup-shaped container and discarding it after eating. That is, the present invention
Opening an easily openable opening lid, pouring hot water into the package body from the opening, and cooking instant food in the package body,
The easy-opening opening lid is in the form of a sheet, and the opening of the package body has a flat flange portion over the entire circumference of the opening, and the flange portion is easily opened with the sheet-like opening lid. Glued to the sex,
The package body is made of a deep-drawn type soft packaging material, instant food is deaerated and enclosed in the package body, and expanded when cooking the instant food in the package body, A packaged instant food product having an internal volume required for cooking. Here, the meaning of “expand when cooking” is the state before or during cooking, from the state in which the package body shape is contracted by deaeration packaging to the state before deaeration packaging or a state close thereto. , Refers to returning or returning.

  When cooking, this packaged instant food is inserted and fixed in a cup-like rigid container with the opening of the package facing up, and the easy-opening opening lid is peeled off, and the package is opened through the opening. Add hot water or peel off the easy-opening opening lid first, and insert and fix it in the container with the opening of the packaging body facing up in a cup-shaped container etc. Add hot water to In such a form, it is not necessary to take out the contents from the package and transfer it to a cup-like container, etc., so that it is easy to handle without soiling the hand, and the easy-open sheet-like lid is peeled off. By this, a flat wide opening can be obtained in the package body, which is convenient when pouring hot water or eating.

  In addition, the packaged instant food is softly wrapped and degassed in its entirety, so it is compact when stored and transported, and its contents are sealed and fixed within the package so that it does not move. It is difficult to improve the storage stability. On the other hand, degassing packaging is released at the time of cooking and eating, and the inside of the package can be expanded or expanded by opening or pouring hot water, ensuring the necessary volume when cooking and eating instant food it can.

  In addition, the present invention can be particularly preferably used when the instant food is instant noodles. In the case of instant noodles, soup and / or ingredients are stored on the side of the opening lid on the instant noodle mass, and the soup and / or ingredients and noodle mass are deaerated integrally in the package. A packaged structure is preferred. In the case of instant noodles with such a structure, ingredients (kayaku) and soup are placed on the top surface of the noodle mass (on the opening side of the package), and the entire package is deaerated and packaged. Ingredients and soup are fixed in close contact with the top surface of the noodle mass and do not move in the package. Therefore, when the package is opened, the ingredients are placed on the noodle mass, and it looks good. On the other hand, the hot water to be poured can be directly applied to the soup during cooking, and the solubilized soup is easily dissolved. be able to.

  In the present invention, the noodle mass shape of the instant noodles is a substantially inverted truncated cone shape, and the widest flat portion of the noodle mass is disposed in the package body toward the opening lid side, and the packaging It is preferable that the opening of the body body is substantially the same shape as the planar shape of the widest planar portion of the noodle mass and is formed slightly wider than the planar portion. Furthermore, it is desirable that the package body has a substantially inverted truncated cone shape with the opening being the widest flat part.

  In this way, the circular widest plane on the noodle mass is arranged toward the opening lid side, so that the enclosed ingredients and soup are in close contact between the wide plane of the noodle mass and the opening lid. It can be fixed, looks good, and further suppresses movement of ingredients and soup in the package. In addition, the package body has a substantially inverted truncated cone shape, and the opening is formed slightly wider than the widest flat portion of the noodle mass, so that the noodle mass does not reach the bottom of the package body, and the opening in the package body. The product can be held in the vicinity, and the side wall of the package body is folded in the vicinity of the opening above the noodle mass, so that the product does not look bad. Here, the substantially inverted frustoconical shape means that the tip of the cone is rounded in addition to a bucket shape and a cup shape (inverted frustoconical shape) obtained by turning the truncated cone shape in the horizontal direction upside down. Also included is a shape in which the mortar shape is turned upside down.

  Further, the present invention provides that the package body opens the opening lid and releases the inside of the package body from the deaerated state, so that the noodle mass can be locked on the inner side surface of the body of the package body, and the At the time of locking, it is preferable that a predetermined volume of space be formed above and below the noodle mass in the package body.

  In this way, if the noodle mass is held at an intermediate position in the package body and has a space at the bottom of the package body below the noodle mass, convection of hot water will occur in the package when pouring hot water and cooking. The noodle mass is highly recoverable and can be restored uniformly. Moreover, when a predetermined volume of space is created above the noodle mass, the hot water can be prevented from splashing outside the package when pouring hot water over the noodle mass. In the case of the present invention, it is preferable that the noodle mass is in contact with the lid with the soup sandwiched before opening the packaging body, but the packaging body is formed of a soft packaging material. When the body is opened to release the deaerated state, the noodle mass can sink to a position where it comes into contact with and locks against the inner surface of the package body. As a result, a predetermined amount of space for easily pouring hot water can be formed above the noodle mass in the package body.

Next, the present invention proposes a packaged instant food set comprising the packaged instant food described above and a cup-shaped container used for cooking and eating the packaged instant food.
Specifically, the cup-shaped container is a cup-shaped container that can be attached by locking the flange portion of the package body at the upper end of the opening, and in which the package body can be inserted into the container. A packaged instant food set.

  That is, the packaged instant food and the packaged instant noodle of the present invention are packaged in a package of soft packaging material, and hot water is poured into the package to reconstitute the food contained therein. Because it is packaged with soft packaging material, unlike rigid and semi-rigid containers, it is difficult to stand on its own, and even if it has a structure that can stand on its own, the shape retainability (rigidity) and heat insulation of the package In view of the above, it is not possible to have the side of the package when eating, and it is necessary to always eat with the upper end of the opening. Therefore, if the flange portion of the package body of the packaged instant food can be engaged with and attached to the upper end of the opening of the cup-shaped container, the package is installed in the cup-shaped container, and the cup-shaped Since rigidity is imparted by the container, it can be handled in the same way as conventional instant foods in cups when pouring hot water, cooking, or eating.

  In this case, the flange portion of the package body is preferably a cup-shaped container that can be fitted to cover the outer edge of the upper end of the cup-shaped container, and the container of the cup-shaped container. The inner shape is substantially the same as the shape when the package is expanded (the shape of the package body before the package is deaerated and packaged), preferably a structure that fits.

  With such a structure, the packaging body is firmly locked to the cup-shaped container, and the packaging body main body hardly moves in the cup container, which is convenient for eating as tableware as it is. In addition, by setting the packaged food in the cup-shaped container and cooking and eating in this way, the cup-shaped container is not soiled and there is no need to wash the cup-shaped container after eating. On the other hand, the package after eating the instant food contained therein can be discarded by rolling or crushing it. By being able to be disposed of in this way, it is possible to reduce the bulk of the waste as compared to the present cup-containing instant food that has been discarded the cup container.

  According to the packaged instant food of the present invention, it can be restored, cooked and eaten just by adding hot water, like a commercially available cup-made instant food. Without discarding, only the package made of the soft wrapping material can be rolled up and discarded, so that the bulk at the time of disposal can be reduced as much as possible. Moreover, since the soup packaging material, the packaging material for ingredients, etc. are not required for each meal, the amount of packaging material to be discarded can be reduced. In addition, since the instant food of the contents is deaerated and packaged in the package, it is very compact, and is less likely to be damaged during transportation and storage, and the storage stability is improved.

  In particular, if a dedicated cup-shaped container suitable for the packaged instant food of the present invention is used, the packaged instant food of the present invention can be made rigid and can be handled in the same manner as a conventional cupped instant food. Moreover, in the case of the present invention, the cup-shaped container itself does not have to be washed simply by discarding the package made of the soft packaging material after cooking and eating.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be specifically described by taking instant noodles as an example.
In the present invention, an instant noodle mass, ingredients, and soup are first prepared as the instant food contained in the package. The instant noodle mass may be produced by a conventional method, and is produced according to each production method such as fried noodles, hot-air dried noodles, freeze-dried noodles and the like. Specifically, after adding and kneading auxiliary ingredients and kneading water to the raw material powder such as wheat flour, rolling and cutting into noodle strings, or extruding to noodle strings, steaming or boiling the noodle strings After processing and seasoning as necessary, this is put in a retainer and dried by fried or by hot air drying, microwave drying, freeze drying, or the like.

  At this time, the noodle mass shape is preferably adapted to a vertically long cup-shaped container, which is less heat deprived by the container when it is restored by pouring hot water, specifically, cylindrical, prismatic, truncated cone, A truncated pyramid is good. In particular, as a container for storing fluid food such as soup, it is difficult to eat unless the container opening forms a circumference, and accordingly, the noodle mass is preferably cylindrical or frustoconical. . In particular, the truncated cone-shaped noodles have the problem of being out of shape from the retainer of the noodle mass at the time of manufacture and increasing the amount of ingredients to be placed and improving the appearance by widening the top surface of the noodle mass. A lump shape is most preferable. This is the shape currently used for instant cup noodles in vertical containers. In the case of fried noodles, the method of molding into such a shape is the shape of the fly retainer, and in the case of hot-air dried noodles or freeze-dried noodles, the shape of the retainer to be put into the drying cabinet or freezer is the desired product shape. As the same type, the noodle strings that are put into the retainers may be dried or frozen. In the case of the present invention, the noodle block shape is formed with a slightly smaller retainer and packed with noodle strings, or in a state of being slightly compressed, so that the noodle block has no burrs and is not easily broken. be able to. By forming the noodle mass in this way, it is possible to suppress the stab of the noodle strings into the soft packaging material for packaging the noodle mass.

  In addition, the packaging instant noodles of the present invention are preferably encased in the package together with ingredients and soup together with the noodle mass, but as a space for that, a depression is formed on the surface of the noodle mass that becomes upper during cooking and eating Can also be formed. If a recess is formed and ingredients and soup are placed here, the ingredients and soup will be more fixed in the package and will not dissipate, and the surface in contact with the package lid can be flattened. There are effects such as easy reading of characters on the club. As a method of forming a depression on the surface of the noodle mass in this way, a method of forming a convex portion inwardly toward the retainer in the shape of the retainer and a method of compressing a part of the noodle mass using a pressing member The method of doing etc. is possible.

  Ingredients and soups can be produced by conventional methods. In addition to freeze-dried ingredients, the ingredients can be dried by means of hot air drying, microwave drying, fly drying, etc., and can be restored by hot water. For example, various dry ingredients such as shrimp, char siu, kamaboko, green onions, bean sprouts, tempura, fried chicken, etc. that are used in general instant cup noodles can be used. A mold drying tool material that has been added to the mold and placed in the mold and dried can also be used. The soup can be a solid, such as powder, granule, plate, pellet or the like, which can be easily dissolved. The soup uses various seasonings, spices, salt, powdered soy sauce, sugar, fragrances and other extracts, fats, pigments and the like. What was manufactured by having a granulation process so that it may melt | dissolve is preferable, and various things, such as fluidized-bed granulation, spray granulation, and pulverization granulation, can be used as a granulation method. Also, the soup and ingredients can be in the form of a plate or the like mixed and molded. In this case, like the molding tool material, starch, dextrin, gelatin and the like are added as binders, placed in a mold and dried for molding.

  In the present invention, it is preferable that both the soup and ingredients are contained in the package together with the noodle mass, but in the case of inexpensive products, it is possible to have no ingredients, In the case of using seasoned instant noodle chunks in which the noodles themselves are seasoned, the soup is not necessarily attached. The instant noodle mass, ingredients, and / or soup produced in this way are stored in the deep-drawn type packaging body made of soft packaging material, and the ingredients and soup are placed thereon. And accommodate.

  As a manufacturing method of a deep drawing type package, a so-called vacuum is formed by heating and softening a sheet of soft packaging material mainly composed of nylon, polystyrene, etc., and vacuum-sucking the sheet from the cavity side to form a deep drawing type. A molding method can be used. Alternatively, it can be manufactured by various methods such as drawing in the soft packaging material by reducing the pressure from the cavity side, pressing it with a plug and molding it, or joining and assembling each of a plurality of sheet-like parts. .

  The inner volume of the deep-drawn package body is at least a volume required for cooking, eating, and so on by adding hot water with pouring hot water while the noodle mass is placed, that is, a volume including soup at the time of eating. It is assumed to have a size. For example, in the case of fried noodles with a noodle mass weight of 65 g, in the case of general soup products, the volume is set to about 350 to 550 ml. In this case, the volume occupied by the noodle mass in the package body is about 30 to 50% of the volume of the package body (the volume before deaeration packaging). In addition, the shape of the deep-drawn concave portion is a shape through which the noodle mass to be enclosed passes, and when the noodle mass is a columnar shape or a truncated cone shape, the shape is almost the same as the widest plane of the noodle mass. A slightly wider shape is better. By forming it in a slightly wider extent, the noodle mass is placed slightly behind the opening of the package, and ingredients, soup, etc. are placed in the space above it. In addition, the noodle mass is stored at a relatively close (slightly back) position from the opening of the packaging body, so that the opening or the lid material is less likely to be wrinkled during deaeration packaging, and the figure and characters printed on the lid are difficult to see. Hard to become.

  Further, the deep drawing type concave portion, that is, the inner side surface of the package body preferably has a tapered side wall extending toward the opening, and the overall shape is preferably a substantially inverted truncated cone shape. By adopting a substantially inverted truncated cone shape, the outer side surface of the noodle mass to be sealed comes into contact with the tapered inner side surface, and the noodle mass is held at an intermediate position inside the package body, so that a space is formed at the bottom of the package body. Can be formed. Due to the presence of the space, hot water poured into the package convects within the package, and the noodle mass can be restored uniformly. In addition, since the noodle mass is locked at the intermediate position in the package so as to cover the cross section of the intermediate position, the soup placed on the noodle mass does not fall to the bottom of the package body, and hot water is directly applied to the soup. By adding, the solubility of the soup is improved. In addition, as the shape of the deep-drawn concave portion, a bellows structure is adopted at the bottom so that the package body can be easily expanded after the package is opened, a very flexible one, and the noodle mass is easily held at an intermediate position. In this way, a funnel-like shape having a step in the intermediate part is also conceivable. Moreover, a water line can also be attached to the inner surface of the package body.

  As mentioned above, by molding the package body into a deep drawing mold by vacuum forming method etc., the part drawn into the deep drawing mold becomes the body and bottom of the packaging body, and the part of the sheet that is not drawn in is the flange part It becomes. Since the flange portion is a portion that is bonded and integrated with the lid material for easy opening, the bonded portion is preferably flat, and the width of the bonded portion is such that it can be easily peeled off by hand. It needs to be formed. In addition, the sheet | seat of a soft packaging material which mainly has a polypropylene, PET etc. is used for the sheet | seat used as a cover part, and it adhere | attaches and integrates with the flange part of a deep drawing type package body.

  On the other hand, it is desirable that the flange portion also has a structure that can be attached to the upper end of the cup-shaped container. In this case, the outer edge of the flange is bent so that it can be locked to the upper end of the cup-shaped container or the outer surface. Perform the process. Alternatively, the outer edge of the flange is made of a material that can be bent. In addition, if a means such as fitting or bonding a rigid plastic ring is used for the flange portion, the flange portion can be given rigidity and the lid material can be bonded flat, and the shape Can be fitted to the upper end of the opening of the cup-shaped container, and the flange structure can be fitted to the cup-shaped container.

  A material having the function is laminated on the surface of at least one of the adhesion surface of the sheet to be the deep drawing type package body and the sheet to be the lid material in order to provide an easy-opening function. . As the easily openable material, polypropylene resin or the like can be used according to the material on the package body side and the material on the lid material side, in addition to an easily adhesive resin such as EVA. Here, the easy-opening seal strength needs to be an adhesive strength that can be peeled off by hand, and a strength that can seal the inside of the package without peeling off at the time of manufacture, storage, etc., 500 to 1500 g / 15 mm is most preferable.

  The aforementioned noodle mass is housed in the deep-drawn package body formed in this way. When the noodle mass has a depression of the ingredient placement portion as described above, or when the noodle mass has a wide plane such as a truncated cone shape or a cylindrical shape, the surface having the depression or the wide plane is a deep drawing type. Into the opening of the package (upward). Next, ingredients and soup are placed on the noodle mass and stored. From the viewpoint of appearance, it is preferable to add the soup first, followed by the ingredients, but the soup may be added at the same time or before the ingredients. As mentioned above, the soup and ingredients It is also possible to throw in an integrally molded product.

  The package containing ingredients, soup and noodle mass is covered with a cover sheet, the flange part of the deep-drawn package body is laminated, and the package is depressurized to deaerate the package. Laminate and bond under. Adhesion is usually by heat fusion, but other methods are possible. In this way, after the lid sheet and the deep drawing type packaging body flange part are bonded and integrated, the connected flange parts are cut and completed in a single meal. To do. A specific example of a side view of the finished packaged instant noodle of the present invention is shown in FIG. In FIG. 1, the packaging body opening is on the upper side, the ingredients soup and the like are installed directly below the lid, and the noodle chunks are stored under the soup. The bottom portion of the package body is a bottom portion of the package body that is contracted and folded by being deaerated and packaged, and serves as a portion that provides a volume necessary for cooking and eating.

  Next, the most suitable cup-shaped container for cooking the packaged instant food of the present invention will be described using the packaged instant noodle as an example. The cup-shaped container that can be used for the packaged instant noodles of the present invention is a container in which the package body of the packaged instant noodles of the present invention can be locked and attached to the container opening. Preferably, the flange portion of the packaging body has a structure that fits with the upper end of the opening of the cup-shaped container. For example, the outer edge of the flange portion of the packaging body is directed from the outer edge of the upper end of the opening of the cup-shaped container toward the outer surface. It is possible to use a structure adapted to be bent and fitted, or a structure adapted to this, or a member to which a flange member of the package body and an opening end of the cup-shaped container are fitted.

  In addition, the shape of the cup-shaped container in the container is substantially the same as when the package body is expanded (before degassing and packaging) so that the package does not sag in the container and does not hang in the air, preferably close It is preferable that the shapes match. Thus, the shape of the cup-shaped container of the present invention is preferably matched to the shape of the package body. However, in the case of a container with a large surface area and the hot water that has been poured cools down quickly, This is not preferable because it may not be performed. In particular, if the noodle mass is about the same size as or larger than one serving of regular instant noodles, the noodles may not return well or the soup may not be sufficiently melted. Thus, a vertical cup-shaped container having a substantially inverted truncated cone shape is most preferable so that a space can be formed between the bottom surface of the noodle mass, that is, an intermediate holding structure.

  As the material of the cup-shaped container, various materials such as those made of various hard synthetic resins such as polypropylene, PET, and polystyrene, glass, and ceramics are possible. However, in consideration of heat retention, heat insulation during eating, and the like, those made of synthetic resin or glass and provided with heat insulation such as a double wall are most preferable. Moreover, the container which has a lid | cover is preferable so that a lid | cover can be made at the time of decompression | restoration cooking from a heat retention viewpoint at the time of cooking. In this case, the lid may be a lid attached to the package that has sealed the package body opening.

  Next, the method for cooking packaged instant food of the present invention will be described by taking packaged instant noodles as an example. The instant packaging noodles of the present invention are opened by first peeling off the seal of the easily openable lid as shown in FIG. When opened, the bottom portion of the package body folded under the noodle mass due to deaeration packaging expands to return to the normal pressure in the package body, or as shown in FIG. When not expanding, preferably the bottom is pulled and the whole package body is loaded into the cup-shaped container as shown in (c). Alternatively, the packaging body may be loaded in a cup-shaped container without removing the easy-opening seal of the packaged instant noodles, and then the easy-opening seal may be peeled off to open.

  Next, when the noodle mass is close to the package opening as shown in FIG. 3 (a), the hot water may scatter when pouring hot water. After pushing in the direction (b), hot water is poured from the opening to cook (c). In addition, in FIG. 3, although the example which pushes a noodle chunk into a container after loading in a cup container was described, there is also a method of pushing with a finger from the top of a lid before removing the lid of an easily openable package, The material and shape of the package body that is naturally pushed by gravity can also be adopted.

  After pouring hot water, preferably cooking with a lid, the set cup-shaped container is eaten as tableware while being set as shown in FIG. 3 (c). Only the inner package is discarded (d).

  As described above, the case of instant noodles as an example has been described as the best form. However, in addition to instant noodles, instant wonton, instant soup, Even instant foods such as vermicelli can be applied to the present invention.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below. This example shows a method for producing the instant packaged noodle of the present invention shown in FIG. 1 and a cooking method.
To a raw material powder of 850 g of wheat flour and 150 g of starch was added 350 ml of kneaded water in which 2 g of salt 20 g of potassium was dissolved and kneaded well with a mixer to prepare a noodle dough. This noodle dough was rolled to a thickness of 0.7 mm with a continuous rolling mill and cut with a cutting blade No. 20 to obtain a noodle string. This was steamed with a steamer, immersed in a flavor solution in which 80 g of sodium chloride and 10 g of sodium glutamate were dissolved in 1 L of water and cut into 95 g per serving. This noodle string was frustoconical and the inside diameter of the retainer was 85 mm for the upper diameter, 75 mm for the lower diameter and 43 mm for the depth, and then fried with palm oil at 150 ° C. for 3 minutes to prepare fried noodle blocks. The noodle mass had an upper diameter of 81 mm, a lower diameter of 74 mm, a height of 43 mm, and a weight of 60 g.

  On the other hand, as a bottom film (a deep drawing type package body), a sheet in which 20 μm of ethylene-vinyl alcohol resin and 130 μm as an easy peel layer were laminated on 100 μm of nylon was molded into a deep drawing type by a vacuum forming method. The deep-drawn package body has an opening diameter of 90 mm, a bottom of 65 mm, a reverse frustoconical shape of 100 mm in depth, and a slight R (R = 10) is formed on the bottom. The periphery of the opening of the film has a wide flange portion between adjacent deep-drawn packagings.

  The deep-drawn package is filled with the deep-fried noodle chunks prepared above with the widest circular plane facing the opening (upward) of the package, and granulated soy sauce granulated from above. The base instant noodle soup 3g, FD shrimp 2g, FD pork mince 2g, AD leek 0.5g, FD scrambled egg 3g were filled.

  In this way, on the package body filled with noodle chunks, etc., the top film (the part that becomes the opening lid) is placed so as to overlap the flange part, and the flange part and the top film are heat-sealed while sucking under reduced pressure. The flange portion was cut for each serving. The material of the top fill is 20 μm stretched polypropylene, 12 μm alumina-deposited PET, and 50 μm polyethylene from the outside toward the part that is bonded to the flange.

The packaged instant noodles of the present invention thus produced are shown in FIG.
This is cooked as follows, using a polypropylene inverted frustoconical cup container having a double wall surface (conical trapezoid with an inner diameter of 92 mm, an opening diameter of about 66 mm, and a depth of about 105 mm).

  That is, first, as shown in FIG. 2, the easy peel lid sheet of the packaged instant noodles was peeled off to expose the noodle mass (a). Since the bottom of the package was still folded at the time of opening (b), the bottom was pulled with a finger and then loaded into a cup-shaped container (c) and the flange was fitted. Next, as shown in FIG. 3 (a), the noodle mass was slightly pushed inside. At this time, the noodle mass was suspended in the middle of the cup-shaped container and the package. 400 ml of hot water was poured into the cup container, and the cup-shaped container was covered and cooked for 3 minutes. The instant noodles after cooking had all the noodle chunks, soup and ingredients properly restored, and were of the same quality as the commercially available cup noodles. After eating, the package body was removed from the cup-shaped container, and only the package body was crushed and discarded (d).

It is a side view which shows the specific example of the packaging instant food (instant noodle) of this invention. It is explanatory drawing until the cup-shaped container is filled with the packaging instant food (instant noodle) of this invention. It is explanatory drawing until cooking and eating the package instant food (instant noodle) of this invention, and discarding a package.

Explanation of symbols

1 Lid 2 Package body 3 Noodle mass 4 Cup-shaped container

Claims (8)

Opening an easily openable opening lid, pouring hot water into the package body from the opening, and cooking instant food in the package body,
The easy-opening opening lid is in the form of a sheet, and the opening of the package body has a flat flange portion over the entire circumference of the opening, and the flange portion is easily opened with the sheet-like opening lid. Glued to the sex,
The package body is made of a deep-drawn type soft packaging material, instant food is deaerated and enclosed in the package body, and expanded when cooking the instant food in the package body, A packaged instant food having an internal volume required for cooking.   The packaged instant food according to claim 1, wherein the instant food is instant noodles, and soup and / or ingredients are stored on the opening lid side of the instant noodles and integrally deaerated and packaged in the package. Food. The noodle mass shape of the instant noodles is a substantially inverted truncated cone shape, and the widest flat portion of the noodle mass is arranged toward the opening lid side in the package body,
The opening of the package body is substantially the same shape as the planar shape of the widest flat part of the noodle mass, and is formed slightly wider than the flat part, and the package body has the widest flat part of the opening. The packaged instant food according to claim 2, which has a substantially inverted truncated cone shape.   The package body opens the opening lid and releases the inside of the package body from the deaerated state, so that the noodle mass can be locked on the inner side surface of the body of the package body, and the packaging body The packaged instant food according to claim 2 or 3, wherein a space of a predetermined capacity is formed above and below the noodle mass in the body body. A set of packaged instant food according to any one of claims 1 to 4 and a cup-shaped container used for cooking and eating the food,
The cup-shaped container is a cup-type instant food set that is a cup-shaped container that can be attached by engaging the flange portion of the package body at the upper end of the opening and can be inserted into the container. .   The package instant food set according to claim 5, which has a structure in which a flange portion of the package body can be fitted so as to cover an outer edge of an upper end portion of the cup-shaped container.   The packaged instant food set according to claim 6, wherein an inner shape of the cup-shaped container is substantially the same as a shape when the package body is expanded. A method for cooking packaged instant food according to any one of claims 1 to 4,
After opening the easy-opening opening lid from the package body, the package body is inserted into a cup-shaped container, or
Or, after inserting the packaging body into a cup-shaped container, the easy-opening opening lid is peeled off from the packaging body and opened,
A cooking method for packaged instant food, in which hot water is poured into the package body from the opening to cook the instant food in the package.

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