FOOD COMPOSITION PRODUCTION METHOD AND PRETREATMENT METHOD, AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING MICROBIAL SAFETY OF FOOD COMPOSITION

摘要

The present invention addresses the problem of providing a food composition which has high microbial safety in spite of containing a food having relatively high water activity, and which can be distributed or sold at ambient temperature. A food composition produced by this production method contains a baked dough food having a water activity of 0.93 or more, and is distributed and/or sold in an environment in which the atmospheric temperature is 12ºC or more. This production method comprises: a step of baking a cereal flour-containing dough to provide the baked dough food; a freezing step of freezing the food composition containing the baked dough food to provide a frozen food composition; and a thawing step of placing the frozen food composition in an environment in which the atmospheric temperature is 1-10ºC for 12 hours or more.