IMMATURE BEAN-CONTAINING POWDER MAINTAINING COLOR TONE, FOOD AND BEVERAGE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME

A dry powder comprising an edible part and an inedible part of immature pulses and satisfying following requirements (1) to (8):(1) a proportion of the inedible part to the edible part of immature pulses is from 1 mass% to 200 mass% by dry mass;(2) a moisture content is 20 mass% or less;(3) brightness in a Munsell color system is 7 or more;(4) chroma in a Munsell color system is 3 or more;(5) hue in a Munsell color system is from 5Y to 10Y or from 0GY to 10GY;(6) a specific surface area per unit volume of dry powder particles before ultrasonication is 0.05 m2/mL or more as measured with a laser diffraction particle size analyzer using ethanol as a solvent;(7) a standard deviation of particle size distribution of dry powder particles before ultrasonication is 200 µm or less as measured with a laser diffraction particle size analyzer using ethanol as a solvent; and(8) a number average diameter of dry powder particles after ultrasonication is less than 30 µm as measured with a laser diffraction particle size analyzer using ethanol as a solvent.