Food product simulating pieces of natural meat and method for producing same
AssigneeObschestvo S Organichennoy Otvetstvennost Ju “MARS”
InventorsAlexander Vladimirovich Peskin, Elena Vladimirovna Ogneva
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Abstract
The invention generally relates to the meat industry, specifically it relates to meat products which are firstly intended for pets, in particular for cats and dogs, or other domestic animals whose feeding diet includes natural meat and, more specifically the invention relates to a food product simulating natural meat chunks or pieces and a method for producing same. The disclosure of the invention provides for a food product having pieces simulating a piece of natural meat, wherein one of the surfaces of each piece has a distinctly defined structure similar to the striated muscle fiber structure of natural meat. The disclosure of the invention provides also a method for producing such food product.
Claims9
A method for producing a food product simulating natural meat pieces, wherein said method is carried out by:
- grinding a meat and/or meat byproducts to produce a meat emulsion;
- forming the meat emulsion to produce a layer of the meat emulsion;
- coating the layer of the meat emulsion with a gel comprising water and an edible hydrocolloid to produce the gel-coated layer of the meat emulsion;
- scraping off the gel and the layer of the meat emulsion adjacent to the gel to produce the semifinished meat product having a distinctly defined structure similar to the striated muscle fiber structure of natural meat;
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- fixing the structure of the semifinished meat product and cutting the resulting product into individual pieces to produce the food product simulating natural meat pieces.
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