Abstract: A substance which adds body to a food product, and a body-adding agent for food products that uses the substance are provided. More specifically, the body adding agent for food products is characterized by having as an active component a peptide, or a salt thereof, that is characterized in that the ?-glutamyl bond number is 2-4 and the peptide chain length is the ?-glutamyl bond number +1 to +2, a food product manufacturing method that uses the peptide, and a method for adding body to a food product, characterized by adding the peptide are provided.

Abstract: To provide a method for improving the body taste-imparting effect of a ?-glutamyl peptide. By using an edible oil/fat composition that is produced by dispersing an aqueous solution of a ?-glutamyl peptide in an oil/fat, the body taste-imparting effect of the ?-glutamyl peptide is improved.

Abstract: A protein-containing emulsified oil or fat composition for producing an emulsified food, said emulsified composition comprising 10-70 mass % of a protein, 30-90 mass % of an oil or fat and 0-40 mass % of a carbohydrate, when the total amount of the protein, oil or fat and carbohydrate is regarded as 100 mass %, characterized in that at least 50 mass % of the protein is derived from a vegetable protein material satisfying all of the requirements a) to d): a) having a protein content in solid matters of 70 mass % or more; b) having an NSI of 80 or more; c) the results of molecular weight distribution measurement thereof showing an area ratio of 10000 Da or more of 50-80% and an area ratio of 2000 Da or more and less than 10000 Da of 10-40%; and d) when heated at 80° C. for 30 minutes, a 22 mass % solution thereof not gelling.

Abstract: A novel substance which adds body to a food product, and a body-adding agent for food products that uses said substance are provided. More specifically, the body adding agent for food products is characterized by having as an active component a peptide, or a salt thereof, that is characterized in that the ?-glutamyl bond number is 2-4 and the peptide chain length is the ?-glutamyl bond number +1 to +2, a food product manufacturing method that uses said peptide, and a method for adding body to a food product, characterized by adding said peptide are provided.

Abstract: The invention provides a gelled composition of mung bean protein comprising a mung bean protein and an alkali metal ion, wherein the gelled composition of mung bean protein comprises the alkali metal ion at 50 mM or greater based on the total amount of the gelled composition of mung bean protein.

Abstract: The present invention aims at providing a mung bean protein composition keeping a good color tone even after subjected to a heat treatment step for sterilization. The present invention provides a heat-treated mung bean protein composition wherein a measurement value according to the Folin-Denis method is 1.39% by weight or less in terms of gallic acid on a dry matter basis.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a pulverulent emulsified composition in which a soybean protein material is used as a protein material constituting part of the pulverulent emulsified composition, the pulverulent emulsifier composition having excellent color tone and exhibiting no feathering or oiling-off when added to, e.g., coffee. A pulverulent emulsified composition that contains, in proportion by dry weight, 0.3-7.0% by weight of a soybean protein material, 10-40% by weight of oils/fats, 0.01 to less than 1.0% by weight of a buffer salt, 40-70% by weight of sugars, and 0.8-5.0% by weight of an emulsifier, and is characterized in that when 5 g thereof is dispersed into coffee obtained by dissolving 2 g of instant coffee in 150 mL of 80° C. water, the lightness (L* value) of the dispersion is at least 35, makes it possible to obtain excellent color tone and exhibits no feathering or oiling-off when added to coffee.

Abstract: The present invention aims at providing a mung bean protein composition keeping a good color tone even after subjected to a heat treatment step for sterilization. The present invention provides a heat-treated mung bean protein composition wherein a measurement value according to the Folin-Denis method is 1.39% by weight or less in terms of gallic acid on a dry matter basis.

Abstract: The present inventors found that the natural flavor intrinsic to soybean is retained more than ever before when soybean is processed to prepare a processed soybean material having a specific lipid content, a dietary fiber content, an acid-soluble component content and a protein content, whereby the present problems were solved. More specifically, the processed soybean material of the present invention is such that, on a solid weight basis, (1) a content of lipid, extracted with a mixed organic solvent wherein a ratio of chloroform to methanol is 2:1, is 10 to 40% by weight, (2) a dietary fiber content is 5 to 40% by weight, (3) a potassium content is 1% by weight or less, (4) a protein content is 30 to 65% by weight, and (5) a sum of ?-conglycinin and 24 kDa protein is 2.4 times or less of lipoxygenase protein in soybean proteins.

Abstract: The invention provides a gelled composition of mung bean protein comprising a mung bean protein and an alkali metal ion, wherein the gelled composition of mung bean protein comprises the alkali metal ion at 50 mM or greater based on the total amount of the gelled composition of mung bean protein.

Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a soybean-derived raw material-containing food or beverage that improves problems with flavor and physical properties, such as the grassy smell caused by soybean raw materials, and markedly improves product quality, in a soybean-derived raw material-containing food or beverage using a conventional soybean raw material such soymilk or tofu. Provided are a milk-substitute composition, an egg yolk-substitute composition, and a composition for improving renal function, etc., characterized by including a reduced-fat soybean protein material having a total protein and carbohydrate content relative to dry material of at least 80 wt %, a fat content (as a chloroform/methanol mixed solvent extract) relative to the protein content of less than 10 wt %, and a total campesterol and stigmasterol (as plant-derived sterols) content of at least 200 mg relative to 100 g of fat.

Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a soybean-derived raw material-containing food or beverage that improves problems with flavor and physical properties, such as the grassy smell caused by soybean raw materials, and markedly improves product quality, in a soybean-derived raw material-containing food or beverage using conventional soybean raw materials such soymilk or tofu. Provided are a milk-substitute composition, and an egg-yolk substitute composition, etc., characterized by including a soybean emulsion composition having a protein content relative to dry material of at least 25 wt %, a fat content (as a chloroform/methanol mixed solvent extract) relative to the protein content of at least 100 wt %, and an LCI value of at least 55%. Also provided are a variety of soybean-derived raw material-containing food and beverages using these compositions.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to produce a masticable food, composed of an oil-in-water-type emulsion gel which has a shape-retaining property and an oil-holding property before mastication and from which oil and fat oozes during mastication to make swallowing smooth, by using any oil and fat. An oil-in-water-type emulsion gel food containing oil droplets having a particle diameter of 50-800 ?m is used. Preferably, the oil and fat is vegetable oil or fish oil, the food is a heat-sterilized food, and the gel is a soybean protein gel crosslinked by a protein corsslinking enzyme.

Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a soybean-derived raw material-containing food or beverage that improves problems with flavor and physical properties, such as the grassy smell caused by soybean raw materials, and markedly improves product quality, in a soybean-derived raw material-containing food or beverage using conventional soybean raw materials such soymilk or tofu. Provided are a milk-substitute composition, and an egg-yolk substitute composition, etc., characterized by including a soybean emulsion composition having a protein content relative to dry material of at least 25 wt %, a fat content (as a chloroform/methanol mixed solvent extract) relative to the protein content of at least 100 wt %, and an LCI value of at least 55%. Also provided are a variety of soybean-derived raw material-containing food and beverages using these compositions.

Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a soybean-derived raw material-containing food or beverage that improves problems with flavor and physical properties, such as the grassy smell caused by soybean raw materials, and markedly improves product quality, in a soybean-derived raw material-containing food or beverage using a conventional soybean raw material such soymilk or tofu. Provided are a milk-substitute composition, an egg yolk-substitute composition, and a composition for improving renal function, etc., characterized by including a reduced-fat soybean protein material having a total protein and carbohydrate content relative to dry material of at least 80 wt %, a fat content (as a chloroform/methanol mixed solvent extract) relative to the protein content of less than 10 wt %, and a total campesterol and stigmasterol (as plant-derived sterols) content of at least 200 mg relative to 100 g of fat.

Abstract: The present inventors found that the natural flavor intrinsic to soybean is retained more than ever before when soybean is processed to prepare a processed soybean material having a specific lipid content, a dietary fiber content, an acid-soluble component content and a protein content, whereby the present problems were solved. More specifically, the processed soybean material of the present invention is such that, on a solid weight basis, (1) a content of lipid, extracted with a mixed organic solvent wherein a ratio of chloroform to methanol is 2:1, is 10 to 40% by weight, (2) a dietary fiber content is 5 to 40% by weight, (3) a potassium content is 1% by weight or less, (4) a protein content is 30 to 65% by weight, and (5) a sum of ?-conglycinin and 24 kDa protein is 2.4 times or less of lipoxygenase protein in soybean proteins.

Abstract: Provided is a soybean protein material which shows high emulsion stability in the case where 30% by weight of sodium casein has been replaced with soybean protein. A sugar-containing soybean protein material is produced by mixing a soybean protein raw material with a reducing sugar and performing a heat treatment at a temperature higher than 100° C. and 170° C. or lower for 10 sec to 300 sec at pH 6.3 to 8.0, followed by a hydrolysis treatment. Further, a sugar-containing soybean protein material in which protein is contained in an amount of 80% by weight or more on a dry weight basis, the 0.22 M TCA solubility is 5% by weight or more, 180 ?mol of more of sugar is bound per g of protein and the content of ?-conglycinin in protein by the ELISA method is 35% or less, or a soybean protein material for a coffee whitener in which the 0.