FOOD CUP

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a food cup excellent in water absorption and oil absorption, excellently retaining food taste, having good shape retention, and preventing food from splitting by expansion of gathers of the food cup to prevent taste movement to other food, and also having a sufficient amount of water absorption and oil absorption, and less oil return and excellently retaining a texture even when heated with a microwave oven, food producing a lot of steam and oil when heated.SOLUTION: A food cup including gathers at a side surface is such that the cup has as the raw material fiber, cellulose fiber whose average fiber length is 1 mm or more and 20 mm or less, and is formed from a laminate of a dry nonwoven fabric formed by giving a binder to a web formed of the raw material fiber fibrillated in the air followed by drying and sticking, and a thermoplastic film, and a nonwoven fabric surface is stuck so as to be the inside of the cup.