METHOD FOR PRODUCING STERILE BOILED RICE CONTAINING BROWN RICE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing sterile boiled rice containing brown rice, further excellent in safety and long preservability, having rich nutrition, homogenous and easy to eat, and sustaining palatability just after boiled for a further long period. SOLUTION: This method for producing the sterile boiled rice containing brown rice comprises subjecting sprouted brown rice to lactic bacterium fermentation treatment, washing the rice in hot water to stop the lactic bacterium fermentation treatment, adding white rice at an arbitrary ratio to the brown rice dried after dripping followed by washing the rice, soaking the rice in a soaking solution, taking the rice out from the soaking solution, adding cook water just before boiling followed by boiling the rice, steaming the rice if necessary, filling the rice in a heat resistant container of gas barrier property in sterile equipments and perfectly sealing the rice. The boiled rice containing brown rice after boiling is adjusted to have pH4-4.8. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO