SEMI-DRIED SWEET POTATO AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semi-dried sweet potato having delicious taste and high quality, eatable as it is, producible by the heat drying of a whole sweet potato without cutting the potato while preventing the lowering of the taste and flavor such as sweetness in spite of the use of heat-drying process and free from the weather risk on the production.;SOLUTION: A sweet potato containing pregelatinized starch, especially sweet potato of the variety of Setsuno-hakuhi is semi-dried with a heating means such as charcoal fire after cutting both tip ends of a whole sweet potato and the semi-dried potato is formed in an arbitrary form and sealed in a sealable bag. Concretely, a sweet potato washed with water is steamed to pregelatinize the starch, skinned, semi-dried as a whole after cutting both tip ends of the potato while gradually lowering the temperature within the range of 60-115°C, formed, sealed in a gas-barrier bag and thermally sterilized to obtain the semi-dried sweet potato.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2002,JPO