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US 2021/0259290 A1Published application
Meat-like food products
AssigneeBeyond Meat, Inc.
InventorsDariush Ajami, David Anderson, Jesse Dill, Timothy Geistlinger, Kenny Mayoral, Huu Ba Ngo, Thomas Noriega, Deya Suarez-Trujillo, Michael Timmons, Troy Walton, Daniel Ryan
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Abstract
Provided are food products that have structures, textures, and other properties comparable to those of animal meat, and that may therefore serve as substitutes for animal meat. Also provided are processes for production of such ground meat-like food products.
Claims40
1-78. (canceled)
A meat-like food product comprising:
- between about 25% and about 60% by weight of one or more meat structured protein products;
- between about 0.5% to about 50% by weight of one or more agent release systems;
- and
- between about 0.25% to about 5% by weight of one or more binding agents for binding together the one or more meat structured protein products and one or more agent release systems in one cohesive mass;
- wherein the one or more agent release systems impart meat-like attributes to the meat-like food product such that the meat-like food product simulates animal meat,
- wherein the one or more agent release systems comprise dispersed system components that comprise one or more agents to be released and wherein trigger conditions cause the release of the one or more agents to be released from the dispersed system components, and
- wherein at least one of the one or more agent release systems is an emulsion.
4 more elements
A meat-like food product of claim 130, wherein the one or more gelling agents and/or gel stabilizing agents comprise a polysaccharide.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.