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US 10,757,952 B2Granted
Vegetable casing film and method for production of tubular sausage casings
AssigneeLiving Cell Research Inc.
InventorReg MacQuarrie
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Abstract
Tubular sausage casings can be prepared from non-animal materials, primarily starches and flours by film-casting followed by gluing with an edible glue composed of konjac and carrageenan. In this way, it has been made possible to prepare non-animal meat casings commercially, that can be used with conventional sausage production technology.
Claims2
A tubular material for use as a sausage casing, wherein the tubular material comprises, in combination:
- a vegetable based edible casing film having a tubular shape and including an edge seal comprising side edges of the casing film which are sealed together;
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- an edible glue provided on the side edges of the casing film, whereby the edible glue holds the side edges of the film together to provide said tubular shape;
- wherein the vegetable-based edible casing film is composed of edible vegetable-based polymeric materials consisting of a major portion of starch and a minor portion of adjunctive polymeric materials, water, and one or both of glycerin and propylene glycol;
- wherein the adjunctive polymeric materials are selected from the group consisting of carrageenan, agar, gellan gum and high gelling starches;
- wherein the vegetable-based edible casing film comprises from 0 to 8.50 wt % konjac;
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- wherein said edible glue consists of konjac, carrageenan and water, wherein the konjac content of the edible glue is 60-90% of a combined amount of konjac with carrageenan.
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