SUGAR ROASTED PRODUCT ALTERNATIVE FOR CARAMEL, CARAMEL, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING CARAMEL

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently provide a bitter caramel not damaging color tones or emitting a smell such as a burnt smell and not damaging a caramel flavor.SOLUTION: Gentiooligosaccharide is used as a sugar roasted product alternative. The gentiooligosaccharide preferably being gentiobiose. Concretely, in a process where raw material containing saccharide and a milk product is heated to produce a caramel, the gentiobiose is added finally by 0.05 to 2.00 mass% to the mass per solid content of the caramel, further, the heating is performed, after attaining to 90 to 150°C, further, by boiling down the same in the same temperature range at 0 to 300 min to produce the caramel.SELECTED DRAWING: None