Meat-like food materials and meat-like food products produced utilizing the same
AssigneeFuji Oil Company, Limited
InventorsYasuyuki Nakano, Nozomi Harada, Hirohumi Kugitani
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Abstract
The present invention provides a meat-like food material having a favorable flavor and a meat-like mouthfeel by heating and pressurizing ingredients including a vegetable protein ingredient, a milk whey protein ingredient and water as the main ingredients with an extruder to obtain a swollen product, and a fried meat-like food product by reconstituting said meat-like food material with a seasoning liquid followed by frying, as well as a glazed fried meat-like food product by coating said fried meat-like food product with a glaze.
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A process for producing a meat-like food material which comprises heating and pressurizing ingredients including a vegetable protein ingredient, a milk whey protein ingredient and water as the main ingredients, and containing 20 to 50% by weight of water, with a twin-screw extruder at a tip barrel temperature of 140 to 190° C. to obtain a swollen product, and drying the swollen product.
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