Patent ID: 8163319

Claim:
A method of producing a food or drink comprising the following steps: (a) freezing one or more fruits and/or vegetables employed as a raw material; (b) micro grinding the frozen fruit(s) and/or vegetable(s) until an average grain size of the micro ground fruit(s) and/or vegetable(s) is about 1 μm to about 100 μm; and (c) dipping the micro ground fruit(s) and/or vegetable(s) in a 15% to 100% alcohol to obtain a dipping solution, wherein the micro ground fruit(s) and/or vegetable(s) are dipped when frozen or thawed to give rise to a paste, and wherein the 15% to 100% alcohol is capable of extracting one or more components of the raw material; (d) including the dipping solution as an ingredient of the food or drink.