Edible Material Having Boiled Egg Yolk-Like Mouthfeel and Food Utilizing It
N\ — IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII OJII Eur°Pean Patent Office <*S Office europeen des brevets (11) EP 0 935 928 A1 (12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION (43) Date of publication: (51) |nt. CI.6: A23L 1/32 18.08.1999 Bulletin 1999/33 (21) Application number: 99300764.0 (22) Date of filing: 02.02.1999 (84) Designated Contracting States: (72) Inventors: AT BE CH CY DE DK ES Fl FR GB GR IE IT LI LU • Nagao, Yasue, MC NL PT SE C/O Fuji Oil Co., Ltd Designated Extension States: Yawara-mura, Tsukuba-gun, Ibaraki 300-24 (JP) AL LT LV MK RO SI • Uesugi, Shigemi, c/o Fuji Oil Co., Ltd. (30) Priority: 06.02.1998 JP 2599198 Yawara-mura, Tsukuba-gun, Ibaraki 300-24 (JP) 27.02.1998 JP 4693298 . Hirotsuka, Motohiko, c/o Fuji Oil Co., Ltd (71 ) Applicant: Yawara-mura, Tsukuba-gun, Ibaraki 300-24 (JP) FUJI OIL COMPANY, LIMITED Osaka-shi, Osaka-fu 542 (JP) (74) Representative: Baverstock, Michael George Douglas et al BOULT WADE TENNANT, 27 Furnival Street London EC4A 1 PQ (GB) (54) Edible material having boiled egg yolk-like mouthfeel and food utilizing it (57) An edible material comprising vegetable parti- cles surrounded with intact walls of individually sepa- rated vegetable cells which is treated with a protein insolubilizer. The edible material has the pleasant mouthfeel of the egg yolk of a hard-boiled egg such as that of a mass of unbound fine granules which is not at all soggy and crumble to pieces upon eating. < CO CM <7> IO CO <7> O Q_ LU Printed by Xerox (UK) Business Services 2.16.7/3.6 EP 0 935 928 A1 Description [0001] The present invention relates to an edible material having boiled egg yolk-like mouthfeel and food utilizing it.
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