	US 12,279,626 B2
	Solid food and solid milk having excellent resistance to breakage when dropped
Keigo Hanyu, Tokyo (JP); Aya Kato, Tokyo (JP); Tetsu Kamiya, Tokyo (JP); and Koji Yamamura, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to MEIJI CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/641,339
Filed by Meiji Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Sep. 3, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/033502 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 8, 2022, PCT Pub. No. WO2021/049422, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 18, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-167796 (JP), filed on Sep. 13, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0354143 A1, Nov. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. A23C 9/18 (2006.01); A23P 30/10 (2016.01)

CPC A23C 9/18 (2013.01) [A23P 30/10 (2016.08)]

1 Claim

1. A solid milk having a solid form obtained by compression molding a powdered milk, wherein in a case where a drop test in which the solid milk is dropped onto a drop face is repeated until the solid milk is broken, the number of times of dropping leading to breakage when a dropping energy density per unit fracture stress EF is 2×10⁻⁴[(J/m²)/(N/m²)] is 3 times or more, the number of times of dropping leading to breakage when EF is 1×10⁻⁴[(J/m²)/(N/m²)] is 10 times or more, and the number of times of dropping leading to breakage when EF is 5×10⁻⁵[(J/m²)/(N/m²)] is more than 30 times, EF being obtained by dividing a dropping energy density in the drop test by a fracture stress of the solid milk, wherein one or more through-holes are provided in a body of the solid milk.