Method of making processed meat products
AssigneeKraft Foods Global Brands LLC
InventorsPaul G. Morin, Michele L. Reeve, Jennifer L. Tomey, Domini T. Malcom, Daniel B. Wilke
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Abstract
A method and system for making processed meat products employing a feed-forward analysis wherein input streams are analyzed and their flow rates are controlled relative to each other. The system incorporates mixing devices in a housing through which the input streams are forced. The mixing devices provide high shear mixing and blending, and in some cases maceration and salt infusion for rapid protein extraction.
Claims20
A method of making processed meat products comprising:
- feeding a plurality of input meat ingredient streams, having different compostions, into a mixing device, wherein said meat is selected from at least one of beef, prok, poultry, fish and meat by-products;
- measuring at least one compositional characteristic of at least one of said meat ingredient streams;
- controlling relative flow rates of the input meat ingredient streams, based on the measurement using a feed forward composition analysis to maintain said at least one compositional characteristic within a predetermined range;
- directing the input meat ingredient streams into a processor;
- processing together the input meat ingredient streams;
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- producing a combined meat stream from the processed input meat ingredient streams having said at least one compostional characteristic within said predetermined range.
A method of making a processed meat product having a first compositional characteristic within a predetermined final range comprising:
- supplying a first ingredient of a processed meat product at a first flow rate wherein said meat is selected from at least one of beef, pork, poultry, fish and meat by-products;
- supplying a second ingredient of the processed meat product at a second flow rate;
- combining said first and second ingredients into a mixture;
- measuring a second compositional characteristic of said first ingredient upstream of said combining;
- maintaining the first compositional characteristic of the mixture within a predetermined intermediate range by varying one of said first and second flow rates in response to said measuring based on a correlation between said first and second compositional characteristics;
- processing the mixture to produce the processed meat product with the first compositional characteristic within the predetermined final range.
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