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US 3,962,481 AGranted
Meat-like textured protein product and process
AssigneeThe Quaker Oats Company
InventorSurinder Kumar
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Abstract
A textured protein product is formed from a slurry by solubilizing vegetable or animal protein in alkaline aqueous medium, precipitating the protein by adjusting pH and temperature from the slurry, recovering the precipitated protein mass, shaping the recovered protein mass, and treating the protein mass with a hydrophobic liquid.
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A process for forming a meat-like textured protein comprising:
- A. solubilizing at least one protein in an aqueous alkaline medium to form a slurry of a protein;
- B. precipitating the protein from the slurry;
- C. recovering the precipitated protein;
- D. shaping the recovered protein;
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- E. texturizing the shaped protein by heating the shaped protein in a hydrophobic liquid.
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