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US 4,784,870 AGranted
Process for preparing paste food product
AssigneeFuji Oil Company, Limited
InventorsHitoshi Yokoyama, Morio Furui, Katsuto Sahara, Yukiya Iwanaga, Toshiaki Saito
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Abstract
A process for preparing a paste product which comprises mixing a heat gellable protein paste with an acidic paste in a low degree of homogeneity and heating to gelatinize the resulting mixture. A mixing-molding apparatus used for the preparation of the paste product is also disclosed.
Claims9
A process for preparing a paste product which comprises mixing a heat gellable protein-containing paste with an acidic paste in a low degree of homogeneity and heating to gelatinize the resulting mixture;
- the heat gellable protein-containing paste having a pH in the range of from 65 to 7.5 and being selected from the group consisting of animal meat paste, poultry meat paste, fish meat paste, shellfish meat paste, vegetable protein paste and a mixture thereof and the content thereof being not less than 50% by weight based on the total weight of the mixture;
- the pH of the acidic paste being at least 4 but less than 6.5 and the content thereof being not less than 5% by weight based on the total weight of the mixture;
- and the low degree of homogeneity being such that the cross section of 4 to 9 cm.sup.2 at any portion of the mixture contains at least one string of said acidic paste.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.