VEGETABLE LIQUEUR AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing a vegetable liqueur, which efficiently and industrially produces a vegetable liqueur being excellent in terms of component and appearance and easily drinkable due to a slight grassy smell and an excellent mouthfeel over throat without requiring much labor. SOLUTION: The method for producing a vegetable liqueur that is a mixture of squeezed juice of greenish yellow vegetable and white wine and reduces a grassy smell while keeping a functional component and a color tone characteristic of a greenish yellow vegetable used as a raw material. Firstly, a pretreatment process for heat-treating a greenish yellow vegetable with steam is carried out. Then a low-temperature preservation process for preserving the greenish yellow vegetable after the heat treatment is carried out at a temperature lower than a normal temperature. Then, a squeezed juice collection process for collecting a squeezed juice from the greenish yellow vegetable after the low-temperature preservation is carried out. Then, a mixing process for mixing the collected squeezed juice with a white wine is carried out to give the vegetable liqueur. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT