METHOD FOR POWDERING SILKWORM USED AS HIGHLY AMINO ACID-CONTAINING FOOD, THE HIGHLY AMINO ACID-CONTAINING FOOD, AND HEALTH FOOD

摘要

PPROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for powdering silkworms, capable of preventing change/degeneration of an active internal component of the silkworm containing large amounts of various amino acid components, and capable of effectively realizing deactivation of an unnecessary enzyme which rots bodies of the silkworms and extermination of various bacteria, and to provide a highly amino acid-containing food. PSOLUTION: A coarse silkworm powder which is obtained by freeze-drying fourth to fifth instar larvae of the silkworms is subjected to steaming treatment, and then to drying treatment. The unnecessary enzyme which rots bodies of the silkworms is deactivated and the various bacteria are exterminated by the steaming treatment. Because the silkworms are formed into a coarse powdery state prior to the steaming treatment, the steaming treatment and the drying treatment are conducted at low temperatures for short times, respectively. PCOPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO