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[PROBLEMS] A person who has difficulty in chewing and swallowing can recognize what the food is to be ingested and can ingest it with satisfaction, and efficiently aged food that has been softened while maintaining the original shape of the food material. Good, easy to manufacture, especially for mature foods that can degrade mainly connective tissue proteins of animal food materials, adjust their degree, reduce elasticity, and improve taste Provide a method. SOLUTION: A degrading enzyme introducing step of uniformly containing a degrading enzyme brought into contact with the surface of a food material into the inside of the food material by pressure treatment, and the action of the degrading enzyme is contained in the food material while maintaining the shape of the food material Including the aging process to decompose the enzyme substrate, the degrading enzyme introduction process expands the food material while maintaining the shape by decompression processing, and compresses the expanded food material to a volume smaller than the volume of the original food material Compression step. [Selection figure] None |