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US 4,045,590 AGranted
Meat analog from agglomerated protein
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorDwight Carl Weigle
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Abstract
A meat analog product resembling comminuted natural meat is made by a process of: (a) contacting with hot water and agitation a mixture comprising fat and two proteins having different temperatures of heat coagulation thereby heat coagulating one of the proteins to form agglomerates; and (b) heating the agglomerates to heat coagulate the other protein.
Claims4
A process for making a simulated comminuted meat product comprising the steps of:
- A. contacting, under conditions of mild agitation and in the presence of from about 5% to about 35% fat, a mixture of from about 5% to about 20% of a first heat-coagulable protein and from about 5% to about 20% of a second heat-coagulable protein with from about 25% to about70% water having a temperature at least equal to the temperature of coagulation of said first protein but less than the temperature of coagulation of said second protein, said agitation being sufficient to form agglomerates;
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- B. heating the agglomerates of step (A) to a temperature at least equal to the temperature of coagulation of said second protein thereby coagulating said second protein.
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