METHOD FOR PRODUCING FRUIT AND/OR VEGETABLE-CONTAINING HARD CANDY

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing a hard candy giving a taste specific to fruits and/or vegetables and a taste of hard candy at the same time, capable of mass-producing the hard candy while maintaining a high quality.;SOLUTION: The fruits and/or vegetables-containing hard candy are produced through a candy dough production step of producing a hard candy dough 1 having a moisture content of less than 5 wt.%; a processed dough enclosing step of quantitatively extruding a processed dough 7 containing 40 wt.% or more of dry fruit and/or dry vegetable, 1-15 wt.% of oil and fat, 5-15 wt.% of moisture, and 0.1-10 wt.% of gelling agent into the hard candy dough through a biaxial extruder projecting port 8 while kneading and homogenizing the processed dough by a biaxial extruder 4; a molding step of molding the resulting hard candy dough into a rope-like molding 9; and a cutting step of cutting the heat-retained rope-like molding into small pieces 11 by a rotary blade 10 and falling the pieces onto a transfer conveyor 12.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT