Food preservation methods and preservatives

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for preserving food and a food-preserving agent by making lauric acid having bacteriostatic action more dispersible in food thereby further increasing the storability as the quality deterioration of the food is suppressed and to provide a preservative therefor.;SOLUTION: In the method for preserving food, 1 pt.wt. of lauric acid is added with 0.1 to 50 pts.wt. of at least one of glycerol fatty acid ester and sucrose fatty acid ester to obtain a mixture to be heated. Then, the mixture is heated and the heated mixture is added to food raw material so that the amount of lauric acid occupies 0.001 to 0.09 %wt. on the basis of the total weight of the food material.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI