Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a seasoning which has a flavor inherent in a soy sauce and which can still have a fruity aroma that is hardly felt with conventional soy sauces even after pasteurization, a method for suppressing a heat-deteriorated smell due to a food material to be felt when a container-packed composition containing the food material is heated in a sealed space and the like. The object is achieved by: a soy sauce or a soy sauce-like seasoning in which the content of at least one kind of ?-lactone is 100 ppb to 60,000 ppb; a method for suppressing a heat-deteriorated smell including a step of suppressing a heat-deteriorated smell due to a food material by heating a container-packed composition containing the food material and at least one kind of ?-lactone; and the like.

Abstract: A traction device includes a series of elastomeric traction elements adapted to the circumference of a tire of an automotive vehicle. Each traction element has a substantially U-shaped elastomeric body, a plurality of reinforcing wires arranged in parallel and embedded in the elastomeric body along the lengthwise direction thereof, cross bars also embedded in the elastomeric body and integrally connected to opposite ends of the reinforcing wires at substantially right angles therewith, and a plurality of openings formed through the elastomeric body adjacent to the inner edges of the cross bars. Metal fasteners extend through the openings and are anchored to the traction element and connect the latter to ropes to be disposed at both side circumferences of the tire.