Methods for producing and pretreating food compositions and methods for enhancing microbial safety of food compositions

摘要

An object of the present invention is to provide a food composition which has high microbial safety and can be distributed and sold at room temperature while containing a food having a relatively high water activity. The food composition, which is the production object of the production method of the present invention, contains a dough-baked food having a water activity of 0.93 or more, and is distributed and / or sold in an environment having an atmospheric temperature of 12 ° C. or more. The production method of the present invention includes a step of baking a dough containing grains to obtain the dough-baked food, a freezing step of freezing the food composition containing the dough-baked food to obtain a frozen food composition, and the freezing. It has a thawing step in which the food composition is placed in an environment having an atmospheric temperature of 1 ° C. or higher and 10 ° C. or lower for 12 hours or longer.