Abstract: An electricity trading system is provided which accomplishes an effect of reducing the risk of electricity tightness even if a large number of consumers participate a trading. The electricity trading system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a bid acceptor accepting bid information containing a bidder ID, a bid sorting processor sorting buying bid information among the bid information accepted by the bid acceptor into multiple groups based on a preference or a bidder kind associated with the bidder ID, and a contracting processor performing a process of making a contract between a buying bid indicated by the buying bid information sorted in a first group among the multiple groups and a selling bid, and a process of making a contract between a non-contracted and left selling bid and a buying bid indicated by the buying bid information sorted in a following group.

Abstract: The present invention provides processed foods that have not been deep-fried, are low in calories and well suited for maintaining health, and also can be diversified while being made uniform in product shape. The processed foods of the present invention are each formed as a product by dividing a paste-form material or lump-form material 5 obtained by mixing a dry raw material powder 1 consisting of a potato granules, and the like; an auxiliary raw material(s) or a seasoning(s) 2 selected from common salt, Umami seasonings, seaweeds, spices, sesames, cereals, nuts, fishery products, vegetables, and the like; and water 3 into individual chip-form materials 9, and baking each individual chip-form material 9 while sandwiching it.

Abstract: A method of producing a texturized material of a marine product from the "surimi" of the same. It comprises the step of feeding to a twin-screw extruder at least one of the following materials; the material prepared by heat-treatment of the "surimi", the material prepared by addition and mixing of suitable subordinate raw material to and into the "surimi" and subsequent heat-treatment of the resulting mixture, the material prepared by drying, for dehydration, of the "surimi" to make the water content thereof not greater than 70% and the material prepared by gelation of the "surimi" through the setting of the same. It further comprises the steps of treating the at least one material under pressures of 1 to 50 kg/cm.sup.2 and temperatures of 100.degree. to 200.degree. C., by means of the twin-screw extruder, thereby processing it into a texturized material.