FERMENTED GINGER JUICE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND FOOD AND DRINK
Japanese Patent JP2006296245
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing fermented ginger juice by which fermented ginger juice having medicinal benefits originated in ginger but no bitterness and pungency peculiar to ginger, and increased in scent originated in ginger: and to provide fermented ginger juice produced by the method, and food and drink containing the fermented ginger juice.
SOLUTION: The method for producing fermented ginger juice comprises the following process: a spawn-culturing process of making ginger fine grains, fermenting and culturing the fine-grained ginger to generate first fermented ginger juice; and a main culturing process of fermenting and culturing the first fermented ginger juice using spawns to generate a second fermented ginger juice. The first fermented ginger juice contains a large quantity of lactobacillus and yeast and thereby is used as a spawn for a main culturing process to produce the second fermented ginger juice. The method for producing fermented ginger juice enables sure reduction of bitterness and pungency peculiar to ginger which can not be sufficiently reduced by an ordinary method so as to increase ginger-originated scent at the same time