The invention discloses
gracilaria powder with high water-retaining property and low heavy
metal content and a preparation method thereof, and the preparation method comprises the following steps: washing
gracilaria, adding
saccharomycetes liquid, and carrying out sealed
fermentation at 20-30 DEG C to obtain a
gracilaria fermentation product; filtering the gracilaria
fermentation product to remove the
yeast liquid, washing the gracilaria fermentation product with 30-50 times of water for 1-4 times, adding a 0.9%
sodium chloride solution, adding medium-temperature alpha-
amylase and saccharifying
enzyme, and carrying out enzymolysis at 45-60 DEG C to obtain a gracilaria enzymolysis product; and filtering out enzymatic
hydrolysate from the gracilaria enzymolysis product, adding food-grade
citric acid for
acid hydrolysis, filtering out reaction liquid,
drying, crushing and sieving to obtain the gracilaria
powder. According to the method, the gracilaria is subjected to specific pretreatment and synergistic
processing of fermentation, enzymolysis and
acid treatment, so that the
water retention capacity of the gracilaria
powder is remarkably improved, and meanwhile, the heavy
metal content is remarkably reduced.