METHOD FOR PRODUCING DRIED SMALL FISH USING YOUNG FISH AS RAW MATERIAL, AND PRODUCT OBTAINED BY THE METHOD

摘要

PPROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing dried small fish using young fish as raw material comprising maturing young small fish via storage in ice at temperature ranging from 5C to -25C to make dried small one have long storable duration while constantly maintaining its deliciousness. PSOLUTION: The method for producing dried small fish comprising young fish comprises the following process: processes 3, 4 where young fish 2 such as any of anchovy boiled in 3-10 wt.% salt water is matured through storage in ice at 5C to -25C; a cooling maturation process 7 where raw material 4 frozen at -23C to -25C is thawed through storage in ice; a vacuum package process 8 where the young fish is vacuum-packaged after thawed through storage in ice; and a pressure-heating process 9. The product obtained by the method keeps its deliciousness of the raw material even when sterilized via pressure heating because maturation in storage in ice at 5C to -25C results in increasing free amino acid to maintain the deliciousness of the raw material even after sterilization via pressure heating, turning the product into long-life one and thereby reduced in waste loss, becoming storable in a refrigerator for institutional use in school or hospital and also for domestic use, and thereby leading the product to a new market. PCOPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT