Sea mussel Mytilus edulis, world-widely distributed, is a sort of popular food in Korea. The demands of high quality and mass production are not being satisfied since it is usually sun dried. A rapid dehydration and the treatment of food additives to improve the quality of the product seems to be required. In this paper, the effect of antioxidants and EDTA treatment was studied when sea mussel was pressed and hot-air dehydrated for 10 hours at 45 to $52^{circ}C$ under the air flow rate of 3 meter per second. The results are as follows: 1) Cooked and pressed sea mussel was dehydrated mere rapidly than cooked without pressing. 2) The rehydration rate of pressed and dehydrated sea mussel was higher than that of the unpressed. 3) Among six samples, BHA treated material showed the best color preservation during dehydration and storage. The treatment of Teonox-II was also effective following BHA. 4) The effects of antioxidants used during dehydration and storage were in order of BHA, Tenox-II and NDGA treatment, while EDTA was ineffective. 5) No significant difference in rehydration rate was found between those treated with antioxidants or EDTA and the untreated. 6) The amount of soluble protein was higher in the samples treated with antioxidants than in EDTA treated or untreated samples. 7) The results suggest that the treatment of BHA and pressing process produce improved product in quality which gives higher amount of soluble protein and better rehydration, color preservation and preventive effect of rancidity.