Animal trimmings are converted to a finely textured beef product by heating ground animal trimmings to a temperature sufficient to liquefy fat in the animal trimmings and less than a temperature to significantly cook the animal trimmings thereby forming a heated slurry, separating at least a portion of the liquid fat from the heated slurry to form a lean textured beef slurry having a fat content of less than about 30% by weight and adding sodium carbonate to the lean textured beef slurry in an amount sufficient to provide a finely textured beef product comprising sodium carbonate in an amount of from about 0.02 to about 0.1% by weight. Finely textured beef products and mixed meat products comprising the finely textured beef products are also described.

The present invention includes a method and food product made by at least partially enclosing a food product with a water-permeable membrane; and contacting a brine or sugar solution with a water activity sufficiently high to draw water molecules across the water-permeable membrane and away from the food product to preserve the food.

The present invention includes a method and food product made by at least partially enclosing a food product with a water-permeable membrane; and contacting a brine or sugar solution with a water activity sufficiently high to draw water molecules across the water-permeable membrane and away from the food product to preserve the food.

Kneading the yeast fermented dough in the sourdough way: the flour is poured into warm water, in which sugar, salt, yeast are diluted, the dough is matured for 20 minutes, the dough is received semi-fluid, the dough is cut on the surface with greased vegetable oil; the stuffing is prepared from offal of farm animals or poultry, with the addition in stuffing ingredients onions in an amount of 10-20% of weight of the stuffing, salts, pepper to taste and further cooking steps are carried out. The method allows to prepare products with the optimal technological characteristics having high nutritional value and organoleptic properties of softness, juiciness, creamy taste.

A reconstructed bacon product includes meat sourced exclusively from pork bellies. The product includes a cohesive mass of compressed layers of pork belly fat trimmings and pork belly lean trimmings of whole muscle segments. A method of forming a reconstructed bacon product includes obtaining pork belly lean trimmings of whole muscle segments and pork belly fat trimmings, macerating the pork belly lean trimmings, layering the pork belly lean trimmings and pork belly fat trimmings, compressing the layers, heat processing the layers in a mold to form a cohesive mass, and demolding the cohesive mass.

A fat delivery system includes particles of at least one emulsified fat at least partially encapsulated in gelled material. A food product includes a plant-based protein base and a plurality of fat delivery particles dispersed within the plant-based protein base. The food product may be a plant-based meat analogue that approximates the appearance, flavor and texture of certain meat products. Methods for making the fat delivery particles and the food product are also disclosed.

A method for manufacturing a shelf-stable bacon-based food product is provided, the method including: (a) selecting a bacon starting material having a linoleic acid concentration of about 14% or less of total fatty acid content; (b) mixing the selected bacon starting material with at least one natural antioxidant and one or more additional ingredients to provide a bacon-based blend; and (c) freeze-drying the bacon-based blend to provide a shelf-stable bacon-based food product. Bacon-based and bacon-first food products formulated according to the disclosed methods and having enhanced shelf life are also provided herein.

A method for manufacturing a shelf-stable bacon-based food product is provided, the method including: (a) selecting a bacon starting material having a linoleic acid concentration of about 14% or less of total fatty acid content; (b) mixing the selected bacon starting material with at least one natural antioxidant and one or more additional ingredients to provide a bacon-based blend; and (c) freeze-drying the bacon-based blend to provide a shelf-stable bacon-based food product. Bacon-based and bacon-first food products formulated according to the disclosed methods and having enhanced shelf life are also provided herein.

An apparatus for processing a foodstuff material is provided, specifically for producing sausage products from sausage meat. The apparatus includes a stationary housing which has a wall and which can be connected in fluid-conducting relationship to a conveyor pump, and has a discharge opening for delivery of the foodstuff material. Arranged within the housing is an element for partially swirling the foodstuff material within the housing, which is rotatable relative to the wall and along which in operation at least a partial amount of the foodstuff material to be conveyed flows. The rotatable element ends within the housing before the discharge opening for delivery of the foodstuff material. The apparatus can produce a string with a substantially cylindrical outer contour from a foodstuff material like sausage meat.

The invention relates to a food, especially a meat product, containing a specific taste-active substance, to the use of raw materials of meat, or of extracts of such raw materials of meat, as taste-active substance, and to a method for producing a food containing a taste-active substance, especially a meat product containing taste carriers. Here, the invention relates to those foods, especially meat products, selected from the group consisting of meat preparation, uncooked sausage, scalded sausage, cooked sausage, cooked cured article, uncooked cured article, aspic and jellied meat, which contain (i) at least partially fermented meat, or (ii) an extract of at least partially fermented meat, as taste-active substance in the food.