Patent ID: 8080267

Claim:
A method for producing a 5′-nucleotide-containing soy sauce, the method comprising: heating a soy sauce moromi mash at 130 to 80° C. for 2 seconds to 15 minutes, thereby inactivating all phosphatases contained in the soy sauce moromi mash, and then adding malt, germinated rice, or a processed product thereof to the soy sauce moromi mash, thereby producing and accumulating 5′-nucleotides in the soy sauce, wherein the method comprises mixing soy sauce koji with an aqueous common salt solution, thereby preparing a soy sauce moromi mash; inactivating all phosphatases contained in the soy sauce moromi mash by heating the soy sauce moromi mash at 130 to 80° C. for 2 seconds to 15 minutes; adding soy sauce yeast to the phosphatase-inactivated soy sauce moromi mash, and then subjecting the phosphatase-inactivated soy sauce moromi mash to yeast fermentation; autolyzing the yeast contained in the yeast-fermented soy sauce moromi mash at a temperature of 40 to 60° C. for 3 to 72 hours; inactivating all phosphatases derived from the soy sauce yeast contained in the yeast-autolyzed soy sauce moromi mash by heating at 130 to 80° C. for 2 seconds to 15 minutes; and adding malt, germinated rice, or a processed product thereof to the phosphatase-inactivated soy sauce moromi mash, thereby producing and accumulate 5′-nucleotides in the soy sauce, and wherein the preparing soy sauce moromi mash comprises mixing soy sauce koji with 200 to 2000% (W/W) of the aqueous common salt solution with respect to the soy sauce koji.