REDUCING STARCH SUGAR COMPOSITION, ITS PRODUCTION AND FOOD AND DRINK CONTAINING THE SAME COMPOSITION

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To produce both a reducing starch sugar composition, having the quality of a good low sweetness, excellent in heat resistance, low in humectation and cariosity and coloring properties at a low production cost and a food and drink containing the composition and provide a method for producing the composition. ;SOLUTION: This reducing starch sugar composition is obtained by using at least one selected from starch, a maltooligosaccharide and a dextrin having a higher polymerization degree than that of maltose as a raw material, successively or simultaneously making at least one enzyme selected from various α-amylases, amylases capable of producing oligosaccharides, β-amylases and debranching enzymes and an enzyme capable of producing a nigerooligosaccharide by transglycosidation and condensation reactions act thereon, producing the nigerooligosaccharide and then reducing the resultant nigerooligosaccharide. The resultant composition contains a nigerooligosaccharide alcohol. When the reducing starch sugar composition is contained as at least a part of a sweetener of a food and drink, not only the sweetness but also various effects such as an improvement in quality of the sweetness and humectation can be imparted to the food and drink.;COPYRIGHT: (C)1997,JPO