Based on the intimate relation
1)'
2)'
3) found between the water intake of a fish flesh and the jelly-strength of the Kamaboko prepared thereof, it may be expected that such a salt con-centration as just keeps a fish flesh at a minimum of water intake also makes the Kamaboko made of this raw flesh disclose to be at a minimum of jelly strength.
This expectation was proved to be met on the relative jelly strengths of Kamaboko samples evaluated by a newly devised procedure.
According to this procedure, Kamaboko specimens A, B, C, ……, respectively different in salt content are made into pairs, the pendants of which alternating with others as many as possible, but definite in number. Depending on the degree of distinction organoleptically found between these pendants, comparative jelly strength is represented, for instance, as A??B, A≥C, AD, A≥E, A»F, and etc., where in the symbols ?, ≥, , ? » are estimated as 0, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 marks, respectively. The total marks to be given to a particular specimen are determined after completing the comparison of every one of the specimens with all the other ones, while a specimen found always to be inferior to others remains getting no marks. The results obtained in the present part of study are summarized as follows:
1. With three sequences of fish paste prepared from
nibea argentata each comprising several batches of different salt contents, the batches containing KI, MgCl
2 and K
2S0
4 at 1/10, 1/50 and 1/50 by molar concentration, respectively, were found to produce Kamaboko specimens each of minimal strengths.
So far as the salt added was MgCl
2, also a fish paste prepared from sea-eel gave rise to a Kamaboko of least jelly-strength when the salt concentration was M/50. These values of salt concentration seem likely to be in agreement with those which most effectively reduce the water intake of raw flesh, though the concentrations of MgCl
2 and K
2SO
4 that most strongly suppress the water intake of sea-eel flesh have been reported
3) to be situated equally at M/60.
2. While the addition of KI or MgCl
2 had the effect of producing a Kamaboko of large jelly-strength, causing the raw fish paste to soften remarkably, K
2SO
4 had little effect as compared with KI or MgCl
2.
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