A cooked slice of a meat mass formed of a ground meat mixture and expanded pellets of cellular material provides a crispy, light meat snack product. In some embodiments, the pellets are rendered skin having a low pre-expansion moisture content. A method of making the meat snack product includes making a meat form by adding pellets of cellular material having a moisture content of less than 10% by weight to a ground meat mixture, batch cooking, chilling and slicing the meat form, and cooking the slices of the meat form to expand the pellets of cellular material to result in a crispy meat form slice.

Moisture is retained in cooked or thawed food by adding to the food an aqueous suspension of animal muscle protein obtained from animal muscle tissue. The aqueous suspension is obtained by mixing comminuted animal muscle tissue with a food grade base to form an aqueous basic solution of animal muscle protein. The basic solution is mixed with a food grade acid to precipitate the protein in an aqueous composition. The precipitated protein then is comminuted to form an aqueous suspension of comminuted animal muscle protein.

Methods and compositions for the production of non-meat consumable products are described herein. A meat substitute is described which is constructed from a muscle analog, a fat analog, and a connective tissue analog.

The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing instant food capable of being inductively cooked, a method for cooking the instant food, and a device for heating and cooking the instant food and, more specifically, the manufacturing method comprises: a soup forming step of making an instant food soup into a plate-shaped soup formation; a solid ingredient stacking step of putting the soup formation made through the soup making step into an instant food cooking container, and stacking instant food solid ingredients thereon; and a packaging step of sealing, by a cover, the open mouth of the instant food cooking container in which the solid ingredients are accommodated in a state of being stacked on the soup formation through the solid ingredient stacking step. An instant food manufactured and cooked through the steps can be simply cooked through hot water and an induction device, exhibits a uniform taste, and contains rich nutritional content so as to promote a consumer's health.

The invention concerns an extended shelf-life proteinaceous meat analogue wherein said meat analogue comprises optionally at least one inclusion included in a matrix which comprises animal and vegetable proteins among which at least wheat gluten and a plasticizer. The invention is further about a method for obtaining an extended shelf-life proteinaceous meat analogue comprising the step of (i) mixing animal and vegetable proteins among which at least vital wheat gluten and a plasticizer for obtaining a dough, (ii) shaping said dough by at least cutting the dough in dough pieces and agglomerating said dough pieces optionally with at least one inclusion to obtain an agglomerate, and (iii) heating said agglomerate wherein said extended shelf-life proteinaceous meat analogue has a water content of less than 20% (w/w). The invention also concerns a foodstuff comprising said extended shelf-life proteinaceous meat analogue and the method for obtaining said foodstuff.

Methods and compositions for the production of non-meat consumable products are described herein. A meat substitute is described which is constructed from a muscle analog, a fat analog, and a connective tissue analog.

Disclosed herein are improved methods and compositions which more accurately replicate the characteristics that consumers value in the preparation and consumption of meat and which overcome the shortcomings and drawbacks of current meat substitutes.

The present disclosure generally relates, in certain aspects to cultivated meat and other cultivated animal-derived products. In some embodiments, the cultivated meat product comprises a fat replica, muscle replica, and a cell lysate. e.g., forming a tissue mass. The muscle replica may comprise microcarriers and non-human muscle cells. The fat replica may comprise a fat emulsion and non-human blood plasma. The lysate may comprise a lysate of non-human red blood cells. In some cases, these may form a cultivated meat product, for example, a ground beef replica. Other embodiments are generally directed to methods of making or using such fat replicas, the microcarriers, or the cultivated meat products, kits involving these, or the like.

This disclosure describes methods for forming cell-based-meat products that mimic cuts of slaughtered meat. Generally, the disclosed method comprises forming a cell mass into primary structures, including fibers and/or sheets. A toughening agent is applied to the exterior surfaces of the primary structures, and the primary structures are arranged to mimic structures in a target slaughtered meat. The toughening agent creates a textural contrast that, during consumption, is like the textural contrast experienced when biting through bundles of meat fibers in slaughtered meat.

Provided herein are compositions with enhanced protein content, proteins with high solubility, protein combinations and methods for the preparation thereof.