Abstract: The present invention relates to a food comprising soybean powder and an edible fat or oil. More specifically, the present invention relates to a food in which the edible fat or oil contains a triglyceride with a medium-chain fatty acid(s) at a ratio of 50% by mass or higher relative to the mass of the edible fat or oil. In particular, the present invention relates to a food which is reduced in beany flavor, grassy flavor, astringency, oily feeling (oiliness), oily odor, and the like, which has a good flavor, and which is improved in feel-on-the-tongue, mouthfeel, milkiness, melt-in-the-mouth, smoothness, and richness, and to a method for producing the food. Moreover, the present invention relates to a method for improving a flavor originated from soybean powder in a food comprising the soybean powder and an edible fat or oil.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to: a flavor improving agent for food including at least one selected from germinated whole fat soybean powder, and enzyme-inactivation-untreated ungerminated whole fat soybean powder; a flavor improving agent for food in which the germinated whole fat soybean powder is a product in a form of a powder of germinated soybean, a product in a form of a powder of a germinated soymilk, or a product in a form of a powder of a germinated whole grain soymilk; and a food produced by adding to a food or an intermediary material of the food in a production step of the food, the flavor improving agent in an amount accounting for 0.1 to 20% by mass of the solid content of the food or the solid content of the intermediary material of the food.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for easily obtaining a concentrated and/or purified protein in a high yield and a high concentration. A concentrated and/or purified protein is prepared by adsorbing a protein such as an enzyme protein or a physiologically active protein on a clay mineral-containing composition and then isolating the protein using a fatty acid ester whose fatty acid moiety has a carbon atom number of not more than 30.