Method for enhancing salty taste of food and drink, food and drink obtained by the method, and salty taste enhancer

摘要

Problem: To provide a salty taste improving method for foods and drinks, foods and drinks containing salts, and further foods and drinks containing grains. Means for solving the problem: A method for enhancing the salty taste of foods and drinks containing salts, characterized by containing rare sugars in the raw materials of foods and drinks containing salts. The salty taste enhancing method is a salt reducing method for reducing the salt content of foods and drinks containing salts, or a method for masking grain-derived grain odors in raw materials for foods and drinks that contain grains to which salts have been added. The rare sugar is a rare sugar containing at least D-psicose.