PROCESSED FOOD MADE FROM KOREA INDIGENOUS PUMPKIN AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME

• Main Authors: CHUNG, HEE DON, YOUN, SUN JOO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Korean
• Published: 06.04.2001
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; HUMAN NECESSITIES; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES

PURPOSE: Provided is a method for simply manufacturing processed foods such as amber juice, jam, and soup, from fully ripe pumpkin, in a short time by mashing it and additionally adding fibers produced from filtration process thereto and mixing pulp and water or pulp and sugar. CONSTITUTION: Processed foods are manufactured from fully ripe pumpkins by the steps of: i) selecting fully ripe pumpkins having high-level sugar; ii) mashing the selected pumpkins to obtain juice containing minute fibers and storing additional pulps; iii) sterilizing and wrapping the turbid juice for sale: iv) filtering the turbid juice to manufacture clear juice: v) manufacturing a processed food for pumpkin soup by mixing fibers obtained from the filtration process, with pumpkin juice, water, and pulp: vi) adding sugar, salt, rice flour, sweet rice powder, and red beans to the processed food to make pumpkin soup: vii) manufacturing a processed food for pumpkin jam by mixing mashed pumpkin with pulp and sugar; and viii) adding additional sugar to the processed food to make pumpkin jam.