JPH04370062A - Snack food and production thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To make garlic odorless and to readily obtain the title food having excellent medicinal effects by treating finely cut garlic bulbs with an acid, freezing and impregnating the garlic bulbs with fats and oils. CONSTITUTION:For example, garlic bulbs preserved with salt are finely cut into a chop state by a slicer, desalted with running water, immersed in an acidic solution of citric acid and treated with an acid, deacidified, frozen in a refrigerator, impregnated with fats and oils under reduced pressure (700-760mmHg) and coated with chocolate, seasoning such as salt and other fats and oils to give the objective food.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

[Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to various snack foods and methods for producing the same, and particularly to snack foods characterized by comprising garlic bulbs whose entire surface is coated with oil and fat, and to shredded garlic bulbs. After acid treatment,
The present invention relates to a method for producing a snack food, which is characterized in that after freezing, the product is impregnated with fat and oil under reduced pressure and then coated with chocolate.

0002

[Prior Art] It is well known that garlic is widely used in foreign cuisines, especially in Chinese and French cuisines known for their deliciousness, but also in Indian, Italian, Korean, etc. In foreign countries, garlic is considered to be an excellent seasoning and spice to make dishes delicious, and is essential as a hidden flavor, rather than as a medicinal ingredient. However, Japanese people have generally used garlic as a medicine rather than a food, and although garlic is disliked for its strong odor, it is often used as a food mainly because of the medicinal properties of garlic. As is known from the Tale of Genji and the Nihon Shoki, in Japan, even though we have known the effects of garlic since ancient times, due to its unpleasant odor, garlic has been considered a lowly food. Garlic is known to have many medicinal effects, including tonic and tonic effects, antibacterial effects, anthelmintic effects, tranquilizing effects, blood pressure effects, diuresis, expectorant effects, and neuralgia rheumatism effects, but especially its activity with vitamin B1. It is widely used for its tonic effects and the tonic effects of scordinin and mucin. The unpleasant odor of garlic is mainly caused by allicin, and allicin, which causes this garlic odor, certainly has strong antibacterial and anthelmintic effects, but the so-called tonic and tonic effect of garlic is not limited to raw garlic, which produces allicin, but also to raw garlic, which produces allicin. Its effectiveness has been proven even with processed garlic, and it is well known that garlic whose allinase has been deactivated by heating is almost odorless. For this reason, many proposals have been made to date to develop products that make garlic deodorized by heating, but all of them are just deodorized products that focus on the medicinal effects of garlic.
There has been little research into taste and texture, and it is no exaggeration to say that until now there has been little knowledge of food in a flavored form that can be used anywhere other than at the dining table.

0003

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] The present invention is intended to eliminate the aversion to garlic that is unique to the Japanese people, and to provide garlic as a delicious food. It is intended to be provided as an easily available and delicious snack food.

0004

[Means for Solving the Problems] As a result of repeated research, the inventor of the present invention found that the garlic bulbs were cut into small pieces, then neutralized with an aqueous solution such as citric acid having a pH of about 3, frozen, and oiled under reduced pressure. It was discovered that by frying potato chips, a seasonable chip-like snack food with a texture and taste significantly different from conventional potato chips can be obtained, and furthermore, by seasoning this with fats and oils such as chocolate, it was possible to obtain a chip-like snack food that was completely unknown until now. We succeeded in obtaining a chocolate confectionery product with a novel taste. That is, the present invention shreds garlic bulbs into chips, neutralizes them with acid, freezes them, and subsequently impregnates them with oil to make a chip-like snack food. By coating, a new chocolate confectionery product is obtained. In this case, the freezing treatment and the subsequent vacuum oil and fat impregnation treatment are essential steps when producing the product directly as a chip-shaped snack food, but when simply producing a chocolate-covered product, the freezing and vacuum frying steps are omitted. After neutralization with acid, it can be coated with chocolate as it is by simply seasoning with salt, sodium glutamate, etc. Moreover, the form of the product is not limited to a chip-like product, but the bulb may be processed and manufactured in its original form without being cut into pieces.

[0005]

[Examples] Examples of the present invention are shown below.

Example 1 Salted garlic bulbs were desalted under running water until the salt content was around 2%, and soaked in an acidic solution such as citric acid for 24 hours. This was deacidified with running water for 7 to 8 hours, seasoned with seasonings such as common salt and sodium glutamate, and coated with chocolate or other fats and oils.

Example 2 Fresh garlic bulbs were peeled and salted in a saline solution containing 10% or more, and then desalted under running water until the salt content was around 2%.
It was soaked in water for 24 hours with an acidic solution such as citric acid. This was deacidified with running water for 7 to 8 hours, seasoned with seasonings such as common salt and sodium glutamate, and coated with chocolate or other fats and oils.

Example 3 Dried garlic bulbs were reconstituted with water or lukewarm water, then immersed in an acidic solution such as citric acid for 24 hours, and rinsed with running water for 7 hours.
The acid was removed for ~8 hours. This was seasoned with seasonings such as salt and sodium glutamate, and coated with chocolate or other fats and oils.

Example 4 Salted bulbs were cut into thin pieces using a slicer, etc., and dried under running water.
．． It was desalted to around 1%. This was soaked in an acidic solution such as citric acid for 24 hours, then removed with running water for 3 to 4 hours, and then frozen in a freezer (-15°C or lower) for at least 24 hours (or in a flash freezer, etc.). . After freezing, under reduced pressure (700 mm
After frying in oil at a temperature of 70°C to 100°C for 15 to 30 minutes, the oil was removed using a centrifuge or the like. The chips thus obtained were seasoned with salt, seasonings, spices, etc., and the flakes were coated with chocolate or other fats and oils.

Example 5 After slicing the raw bulb to a thickness of about 2 mm, Example 4
The product was processed in the same manner as above.

[0011]

[Effects of the Invention] According to the present invention, it is possible to provide garlic having excellent medicinal efficacy as a delicious snack food that can be easily used anytime and anywhere.

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A snack food comprising a garlic bulb whose entire surface is coated with oil and fat. 2. The snack food according to claim 1, wherein the garlic bulb is shredded into chips. [Claim 3]Claim 1 wherein the fat and oil component is chocolate.
snack food. 4. A method for producing a snack food, which comprises subjecting shredded garlic bulbs to acid treatment, freezing them, impregnating them with oil and fat under reduced pressure, and coating them with chocolate.