Abstract
Eight articles of processed foods, supplied to school lunches, were picked up for qualitative evaluation. They were pressed ham, mixed sausage, vienna sausage, fish sausage, kamaboko, pencil-styled kamaboko, chikuwa (rolled fish cake) and satsuma-age (fried fish cake).
Following results were obtained in this study: (1) As compared with Standard Tables of Food Composition in Japan, quantities of protein were lower 10-30 per cent in the all articles, those of fat were lower 10-60 per cent in the 6 except fish sausage and chikuwa, and those of calories were lower 15-25 per cent in pressed ham, vienna sausage and mixed sausage. (2) The articles used for school lunches qualitatively ranked lower than those of high class on the market.
