PRODUCTION OF DRIED MULBERRY LEAF AND MULBERRY LEAF POWDER

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain dried mulberry leaves having blood pressure suppressing action and excellent flavor and storage stability and useful for health food, etc., by dividing raw mulberry leaves into stripe (branch) and leaves by subjecting to a winnowing machine, steaming the leaves and drying to make moisture content of the leaves lower than a prescribed value, and further removing stripes. ;SOLUTION: The objective dried mulberry leaves are obtained by separating collected raw mulberry leaves to stripe (branch) and leaves, cutting the leaves to suitable size, steaming, cooling the steamed mulberry leaves by a fan blower once, making moisture content of the mulberry leaves constant with drying in exposing to hot air, making moisture content 5-6% with exposing to hot air again, and furthermore, making moisture content of the dried leaves lower than 3% by heating in repeating strong heating and weak heating with controlling heating power. Preferably, the dried mulberry leaves are subjected to a crusher to obtain fine powder.;COPYRIGHT: (C)1997,JPO