Dried food material and its manufacturing method and drying apparatus for manufacturing the tea leaves as a raw material

摘要

PURPOSE: To provide a method for producing a dried food using a tea leaf as a raw material aiming at the improvement of improve its quality and drying efficiency. ;CONSTITUTION: This dried food 1 using a tea leaf as a raw material is a dried food using a steam heated tea leaf as a raw material and is processed finally to the shape of strips of paper, and the method for producing the same comprises providing a steam heating process steam-heating the raw tea leaves by the latent heat of the steam, a cutting process cutting the steam heated raw material tea leaves into a prescribed shape and a drying process drying the raw material tea leaves after cutting while untangling to finally process them to the shape of strips of paper. Further, the drier 2 for the production of the same is obtained by providing a fluidized drying device, an agitating blade for agitating and untangling the drying raw material tea leaves in a fluidizing vessel 3 and a hot air supplying device 4 at the side of the fluidizing vessel 3.;COPYRIGHT: (C)1996,JPO