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US 4,001,459 AGranted
Fibrous protein materials
AssigneeGeneral Foods Corporation
InventorsMyung Ki Kim, Joaquin Castro Lugay
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Abstract
Disclosed is a method for producing fibrous protein materials useful for meat analogs. According to this method, an aqueous mixture of a heat coagulable protein is frozen by cooling the mixture in a manner and at a rate effective to produce elongated ice crystals generally aligned perpendicular to the surface of cooling, freeze drying the frozen mass, and heat setting the dried protein material. The properties of a wide variety of meat products can be simulated.
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A method for preparing a texturized protein material comprising:
- a. preparing a mixture comprising heat coagulable protein and water;
- b. cooling the mixture to freeze the water into elongated ice crystals and to separate the protein into we11-defined, well-ordered, substantially independent zones;
- c. freeze drying the frozen mass resulting from the operation of step (b);
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- d. heating the resulting freeze dried material to coagulate the protein.
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