METHOD FOR IMPROVING TASTE QUALITY OF FOOD AND DRINK CONTAINING CACAO MASS, COCOA CAKE OR COCOA POWDER, AND TASTE QUALITY IMPROVED FOOD AND DRINK

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for increasing palatability through improving taste quality of bitter taste and acid taste which become a problem in food and drink such as chocolate containing a raw material derived from cacao, and to provide chocolate increased in palatability.;SOLUTION: This method for improving the taste quality of food and drink or chocolate comprises adding 0.05 mass% of -aminobutyric acid (GABA), based on mass of food and drink or chocolate dough, to food and drink or chocolate dough containing at least cacao mass, cocoa cake or cocoa powder. Taste quality improved food and drink or taste quality improved chocolate improved in taste quality by the method is also provided.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT