Reconstructed bacon product
AssigneeSmithfield Foods, Inc.
InventorsJames Roberds, Charles O. Dairo, Larry W. Hand
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Abstract
A reconstructed bacon product includes meat sourced exclusively from pork bellies. The product includes a cohesive mass of compressed layers of pork belly fat trimmings and pork belly lean trimmings of whole muscle segments. A method of forming a reconstructed bacon product includes obtaining pork belly lean trimmings of whole muscle segments and pork belly fat trimmings, macerating the pork belly lean trimmings, layering the pork belly lean trimmings and pork belly fat trimmings, compressing the layers, heat processing the layers in a mold to form a cohesive mass, and demolding the cohesive mass.
Claims12
A reconstructed bacon product comprising meat sourced exclusively from pork bellies, the product comprising a cohesive mass of compressed layers of pork belly fat trimmings and pork belly lean trimmings of whole muscle segments, wherein neither the pork belly fat trimmings nor the pork belly lean trimmings are subjected to any kind of reduction process to reduce the size after trimming and prior to forming the cohesive mass.
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