Meat-containing puffed foodstuff and preparation method therefor

Abstract

A meat-containing puffed foodstuff and a preparation method therefor where the method includes providing a puffed pellet including grain and meat; providing dried meat; mixing the dried meat with the puffed pellets to form a mixture; feeding the mixture into a chamber of a pressure-molding apparatus; exposing the mixture to an increased pressure and temperature inside the chamber for a selected period of time; and rapidly expanding the volume of the chamber to cause a rapid expansion of the contained mixture to obtain the puffed chip, that is, the meat-containing puffed food, in which the meat-containing puffed food has a total meat addition amount of 5 wt. % or more based on a total weight of the meat-containing puffed food.

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