Patent ID: 8114450

Claim:
A method for producing a starch-containing food, wherein said starch-containing food is cooked rice, a noodle, a bread, or potato salad, wherein when said food is cooked rice, said method comprising: contacting raw rice with a transglucosidase (EC 3.2.1.20) and, optionally a β-amylase, to obtain a mixture comprising said transglucosidase and said raw rice; and cooking said mixture, to obtain said cooked rice; wherein when said food is a noodle, said method comprising: adding a transglucosidase (EC 3.2.1.20) and, optionally a β-amylase, to a noodle dough, to obtain an enzyme-treated noodle dough; and forming a noodle from such enzyme-treated noodle dough; wherein when said food is a bread, said method comprising: adding a transglucosidase (EC 3.2.1.20) and, optionally a β-amylase, to a bread dough, to obtain an enzyme-treated bread dough; and baking said bread dough, to obtain said bread; and wherein when said food is potato salad, said method comprising: adding a transglucosidase (EC 3.2.1.20) and, optionally a β-amylase, to potato salad, to obtain an enzyme-treated potato salad, provided said noodle or bread is not treated with α-amylase.