TREATMENT OF FISHES AND SHELLFISHES

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for treating fishes and shellfishes by which Umami and flavor essential to the fishes and shellfishes are not deteriorated even when freezing and thawing the fishes and shellfishes or even after passing the fishes and shellfishes through processing and a good yield of the fishes and shellfishes is imparted even when simultaneously carrying out freezing and thawing treatments and to obtain a taste and yield improving agent used for the method for treatment. ;SOLUTION: This method for treating fishes and shellfishes is to dip the fishes and shellfishes in an aqueous solution of an edible metal salt of glycine or a mixture of the edible metal salt of glycine with glycine at pH 7.5-10 at 0.1-20 wt.% concentration expressed in terms of the glycine in an amount of 0.1-10 wt.% expressed in terms of the glycine based on the fishes and shellfishes and impregnate the fishes and shellfishes therewith. The taste and yield improving agent comprises the edible salt of the glycine or the mixture of the edible salt of the glycine with the glycine.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2000,JPO