Food compositions having a realistic meat-like appearance, feel, and texture

a technology of compositions and meat, applied in the field of food compositions, can solve the problems of not having an acceptable meat-like appearance, feel and texture, not very appealing or palatable, and the soft texture of these dry compositions is quickly lost, so as to achieve enhanced palatability, enhanced palatability, and high palatable

Inactive Publication Date: 2010-09-16
NESTEC SA
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Benefits of technology

[0008]It is another object of the invention to provide new food compositions with enhanced palatability.
[0009]It is another object of the invention to provide blended food compositions with enhanced palatability.
[0010]One or more of these or other objects are achieved using novel food compositions having a realistic meat-like appearance, feel, and texture comprising from about 40 to about 90% functional proteins, from about 0.05 to about 2% of one or more cross-linking agents, and from about 60 to

Problems solved by technology

Unfortunately, the soft texture of these dry compositions is quickly lost, possibly due to loss of moisture.
Without the soft texture,

Method used

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example 1

Making a Base Mix

[0069]680 kilograms of soy flour and about 260 kilograms of soybean meal were mixed until homogeneous. About 60 kilograms of a mixture comprising salts, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, calcium salts, phosphates, and sulfur was added to this mixture and mixed until homogeneous to produce a base mix.

example 2

Making a Slurry

[0070]550 kilograms of mechanically deboned chicken was ground to 16 mesh (about 1.2 millimeter sieve opening). 450 kilograms of glycerin was mixed into the ground chicken with stirring until the mixture was homogeneous to produce a slurry.

example 3

Making a Preconditioned Mix

[0071]820 kilograms of the base mix from Example 1 and 180 kilograms of the meat slurry from Example 2 were combined with stirring until the mixture was homogeneous to produce a preconditioned mix.

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Abstract

The invention provides novel food compositions having a realistic meat-like appearance, feel, and texture. The compositions comprise from about 40 to about 90% functional proteins, from about 0.05 to about 2% of one or more cross-linking agents, and from about 60 to about 10% of a meat slurry, wherein the meat slurry comprises meat and one or more humectant plasticizers in a meat:humectant plasticizer ratio of from about 20:80 to about 80:20. The compositions are produced by heating a preconditioned mixture of the food components under pressure and then expanding the heated composition to form the food composition.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]1. Field of the Invention[0002]The invention relates generally to food compositions and particularly to food compositions having a meat-like appearance, feel, and texture and to methods of making such food compositions.[0003]2. Description of Related Art[0004]Some food compositions having a meat-like appearance and methods of making such food compositions are known in the art. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 4,910,025 discloses a simulated ground meat analog derived from sprouted whole grain kernels and the process for making the analog. U.S. Pat. No. 5,607,710 discloses a method and apparatus for forming meat analog products and for texturizing a dough mass wherein the ingredients are mixed, passed through a conduit having a decreasing cross-sectional area while the dough mass is heated therein, the heating being done such that a greater heat intensity is applied to the center of the dough mass than to the dough mass adjacent the walls of the conduit. U....

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IPC IPC(8): A23L1/31A23P1/00A23L13/00
CPCA23J3/227A23K1/003A23K1/10A23L1/31445A23L1/31427A23L1/31436A23K1/1853A23K10/20A23K40/25A23K50/42A23L13/424A23L13/426A23L13/428A23K40/20
Inventor UHRHAN, RICHARD B.KUEHNLE, DAVID W.
Owner NESTEC SA
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