AGENT FOR IMPROVING FRUIT JUICE FEELING, FRUIT JUICE- CONTAINING FOOD AND DRINK CONTAINING THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE FOOD AND DRINK CONTAINING THE FRUIT JUICE

摘要

PPROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an agent for improving fruit juice feeling, capable of improving fruit feeling, fresh feeling and juicy feeling of a fruit juice without damaging the taste and the color of food and drink products by adding the agent to the food and drink products containing the fruit juice, and to provide a fruit juice- containing food and drink products having the excellent fruit juice feeling. PSOLUTION: The agent for improving the fruit juice feeling contains a glucan having an inner branching cyclic structural part and an outer branching structural part, and 50 polymerization degree as an active ingredient. The fruit juice-containing food and drink products are obtained by adding the agent for improving the fruit juice feeling to raw materials of the fruit juice-containing food and drink products. The fruit juice-containing food and drink products preferably contain each 0.01-10 wt.% glucan. The fruit juice-containing food and drink products are preferably two kinds selected from a fruit juice, a condensed fruit juice, a beverage containing them, confectioneries, milk products and syrups. PCOPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO