To provide a method for producing a food through evenly including at high concentration esters such as phytosterols and phytostanols which are water insoluble and bad in dispersion and suspensibility in water, and giving a prepared product properties of easily dispersing and suspending in water, and to provide the food.
This method for producing the food comprises mixing and sticking esters such as phytosterols and phytostanols in a melting condition or through melting in an organic solvent with/to edible powder. Alternatively, the method comprises kneading esters, water and edible powder to a powdery state to make a compound material, or impregnating esters such as phytosterols and phytostanols with the dry raw material of the powder followed by crushing and bringing into a powdery compound material.
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OISHI SEIZO
KOTANI AKIJI
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