Process for producing a shark fin analog
AssigneeNippon Suisan Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYouichi Kammuri, Eizoh Nagahisa, Sumio Kamikawa
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Abstract
A shark fin analog utilized as a food is produced by heating to dissolve a mixture of gelatin, alginic acid or na alginate or a mannan, and water to form a gelatin sol, extruding the sol through a spinneret onto a rotating roller which has a surface wetted with a coagulating solution of divalent or trivalent metal salt and functions to elongate and tear off pieces of the sol, each piece having the shape of a shark fin with a thin streamlined profile in cross section, and washing the pieces with water.
Claims9
A process for producing a shark fin analog, which comprises heating a starting material mixture comprising (a) 5-50% of gelatin, (b) 1-10% of alginic acid, an alginate or a mannan, and (c) water, based on the weight of the starting material mixture, to produce a gelatin sol, extruding the gelatin sol through a spinneret having an orifice of approximately 0.5 to 5.0 mm in diameter, dropping the extruded sol onto a descending portion of a surface of a roller rotating at a rotation speed of 100 to 200 rpm and wetted with a coagulating solution comprising a divalent or trivalent metal salt, thereby to elongate and tear off the sol under rotational action of said roller and form the sol into a piece of a streamlined profile in cross-section with one end being relatively thick and pointed at its leading tip and the other end being relatively slenderly extended as a tail, further immersing the sol in the coagulating solution, and wasing the resultant product with water.
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