Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new composition useful as a noodle quality improving agent for improving palate feeling of noodles and to provide a method for producing the same. SOLUTION: The invention relates to the composition comprising 9-99.9 mass% of β-1,3-1,4-glucan and 0.1-50 mass% of arabinoxylan. The invention relates to the method for producing the composition comprising a process A milling barley containing at least 50 mass% of endosperm part into particles having ≤10 vol.% of particles having ≥500 μm of average particle size and 30-95 vol.% of particles having ≤40 μm of average particle size, and a process B fractionating the milled product of the process A to obtain fraction containing ≥80 vol.% of particles having 50-500 μm of the average particle size. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT