WET HEAT-TREATED WHEAT FLOUR FOR BAKERY, MIX FOR BAKERY AND BAKERY

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a wet heat-treated wheat flour for bakeries, which gives bakeries improved in product volume, having inner part fine texture, soft, excellent in moist feeling and orally soluble feeling and, further, suppresses dryout caused by drying and crumbling due to flour aging in reheat cooking by microwave oven cooking after normal temperature, chilled or frozen preservation so as to keep palatability soon after manufacturing, in other words, can obtain bakeries excellent in aging resistance, and to provide a mix for bakeries and bakeries, using the flour. SOLUTION: A wet heat-treated wheat flour having a gelatinization degree of ≥12.5% but ≤30% and, after adding water to be 300 mass% based on the flour, showing a viscosity of ≥1 Pa s but ≤10 Pa s is provided, and a mix for bakeries and bakeries, containing the wet heat-treated wheat flour, are provided. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT