An object of the present invention is to provide a composition capable of providing a bread and a sweet stuff having a more delicious and drying-resistant by using a wide various inexpensive coarse cereals or cereal flours and the like, and to provide bread etc., which do not have generation of caving after baking, or have a pot growth. A composition according to the present invention is characterized by comprising rice hydrolyzate, brown rice hydrolyzate, and agar. Furthermore, in a preferred embodiment of a composition according to the present invention, it is characterized in that the dissolution temperature of the agar is 60 to 100° C.

A crispy textured ambient shelf-stable food product is formed from a dough that includes at least 50% by weight of a fruit and/or vegetable, starch and fat. The food product has a moisture content of less than 4% by weight and exhibits reduced moisture uptake such that the food product has a moisture content of less than 7% by weight after 2 weeks exposure to ambient conditions of 50% humidity at 23° C.

Methods, and compositions derived thereof, for preparing a myceliated amino-acid-supplemented high-protein food product having desired digestibility and amino acid content. An aqueous medium comprising a high-protein material is inoculated with a fungal culture to produce a myceliated amino acid-supplemented high-protein food product. The plant protein can include pea, rice and/or chickpea protein. The fungi can include Lentinula spp., Agaricus spp., Pleurotus spp., Boletus spp., or Laetiporus spp. Preferably, the myceliated amino acid-supplemented high-protein food product has reduced bitterness and/or reduced volatile amino-acid-derived aroma compared to high-protein amino acid-supplemented material that is not myceliated. Also disclosed are myceliated amino-acid-supplemented high-protein food products and compositions, such as dairy alternative products, beverages and beverage bases, extruded and extruded/puffed products, meat analogs and extenders, baked goods and baking mixes, texturized plant-based protein products, granola products, bar products, smoothies and juices, and soups and soup bases.

A method is described for treating bran to improve sensory attributes in food products made with the treated bran. The method includes acidifying a bran to a pH of less than 5 for a period of time sufficient to achieve an increase in soluble protein, then increasing the pH to at least 5.5. Also described are compositions including a treated bran, and methods of using a treated bran to increase bran content in foods or to improve organoleptic qualities in foods containing bran.

A method for identifying an epitope of a wheat T cell immunogen is provided. The method comprises identifying an epitope on the wheat T cell immunogen for the ability to bind a major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II, thereby identifying the epitope of a wheat T cell immunogen.

Provided is a solid composition which is not too hard and excellent in edibility and to which a dry and good crispy texture and a favorable raw material-derived flavor are imparted regardless of a high content of insoluble dietary fiber. A solid composition includes a powder of an edible part and/or an insoluble dietary fiber localized site of one or more selected from the group consisting of dried vegetables, dried grains, dried pulses, and dried fruits is provided. The solid composition contains 3 mass % or more of protein. The solid composition contains 3 mass % or more of insoluble dietary fiber. The moisture content on wet basis is 11 mass % or less. The drying rate (105° C., 5 minutes) is 0.02 g/s.Math.m.sup.2 or more. A 50% integrated diameter of particles in an aqueous dispersion of the solid composition after ultrasonication is more than 5 μm and 600 μm or less.

The disclosure provides a bread-derived scaffold biomaterial for supporting cells, the scaffold comprising a bread crumb and wherein the bread crumb comprises a three-dimensional porous structure to support the cells. Further provided is a use of the scaffold and a method of making same.

A method for manufacturing a bread dough that includes preparing a bread dough using modified gluten obtained by heating a solution containing gluten and an organic acid having two or more carbonyl groups in the same molecule at 1 part by weight or more per 100 parts by weight of the gluten at 70° C. or higher for 30 minutes or longer.

Flour improvers, chlorinated flour replacers comprising the flour improver, methods of preparing the flour improvers and chlorinated flour replacers, and uses thereof (e.g. for improving the textural properties of wheat flour-based high ratio cakes) are provided. The flour improver as disclosed herein comprises between 10% and 97.5% (w/w) of non-wheat flour, wherein the non-wheat flour is one or more non-wheat flours selected from the group consisting of rice flour, oat flour, quinoa flour and buckwheat flour; between 2% and 20% (w/w) of a gel-forming protein in addition to protein present in the non-wheat flour; and between 0.5% and 3% (w/w) of calcium 2+ ions.

Frozen gyoza dumplings that can afford a gyoza dumpling having good wings (gyoza dumpling with wing) that easily spread on a cooking device when heating with the cooking device, etc., do not easily break during peeling off from the cooking device after cooking, and do not easily soften when the gyoza dumpling is placed with the fried surface facing upward are provided by attaching a composition thereto in a frozen state, the composition containing a modified starch having a viscosity of less than 5 mPa.Math.s as measured by method A defined in the present specification and a protein.