FOOD MATERIAL OR FOOD USING SPROUTED GRAIN, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SPROUTED GRAIN, AND METHOD FOR DECREASING SMELL OF SPROUTED GRAIN

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new food material or food using sprouted grains having as the raw material grains such as brown rice and minor grains, improving taste such as sweetness and deliciousness with alanine, and allowing to easily ingest γ-aminobutyric acid.;SOLUTION: This food material or food is obtained by using sprouted grains which are sprouted through soaking grains in an aqueous solution containing bittern component or magnesium chloride. It is possible to decrease brown rice smell or minor grain smell peculiar to brown rice or minor grains in the case of using brown rice or minor grains as grains. It is possible to further effectively decrease brown rice smell peculiar to brown rice by using brown rice which is obtained from early harvested green rice, compared to the case of using ordinary brown rice.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT