Curry powder having high antioxidant property and excellent flavor, and food containing the curry powder

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide curry powder which has a high anti-oxidizing property and has a flavor suitable as the curry powder, and to provide a food which contains the curry powder in a powder state or in a dissolved state. SOLUTION: This curry powder containing an anti-oxidizing spice and a thermally treated spice, having a high anti-oxidizing property and having a flavor suitable for the curry powder. Preferably, the curry powder is a spice mixture comprising (1) 20 to 70 pts.wt. of the antioxidant spice and (2) 5 to 70 pts.wt. of the thermally treated spice, per 100 pts.wt. of the curry powder, wherein the thermally treated spice is obtained by thermally treating a spice to be thermally treated up to an end-point material temperature of 60 to 145 deg.C.