Animal protein-containing food products having improved moisture retention and method of preparing
First Claim
1. An animal protein-containing food product, comprising uncooked animal protein, water and an amount of an alkali silicate effective to enhance the moisture retention of the food product, wherein said amount of said alkali silicate is greater than or equal to about 0.1% w/w alkali silicate concentration in said animal protein-containing food product.
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Abstract
An animal protein-containing food product contains animal protein, water and an amount of an alkali silicate effective to enhance the moisture retention of the muscle food product. A method for treating an animal protein-containing food product to improve the moisture retention of the food product includes the step of contacting the muscle food product or food product ingredient with an alkali silicate.
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49 Claims
- 1. An animal protein-containing food product, comprising uncooked animal protein, water and an amount of an alkali silicate effective to enhance the moisture retention of the food product, wherein said amount of said alkali silicate is greater than or equal to about 0.1% w/w alkali silicate concentration in said animal protein-containing food product.
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14. An animal protein-containing food product, comprising animal protein, water and an amount of an alkali silicate effective to enhance the moisture retention of the food product, wherein said alkali silicate comprises one or more of anhydrous sodium metasilicate and anhydrous potassium metasilicate, and one or more of sodium metasilicate pentahydrate and potassium metasilicate pentahydrate.
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15. An animal protein-containing food product comprising from about 1% w/w to about 30% w/w uncooked muscle protein, from about 30% w/w to about 80% w/w water, up to about 50% w/w fat, and from about 0.1% w/w to about 1.0% w/w of sodium metasilicate, based on about 100% w/w of said product.
- 16. An uncooked animal protein-containing food product, comprising an amount of alkali silicate effective to enhance the moisture retention of said food product, wherein said amount of said alkali silicate is greater than or equal to about 0.1% w/w alkali silicate concentration in said uncooked animal protein-containing food product.
- 19. A method for treating an uncooked animal protein-containing food product to improve the moisture retention of the food product, comprising contacting the uncooked food product with an alkali silicate in an amount effective to provide greaterthan or equal to about 0.1% w/w alkali silicate concentration in said animal protein-containing food product.
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32. A method for treating a food product to retain moisture, comprising the steps of:
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providing an uncooked animal muscle tissue containing meat; treating said meat with an alkali silicate composition to produce alkali silicate treated meat with greater than or equal to about 0.1% w/w alkali silicate concentration; and retaining moisture content in said alkali silicate treated meat above an amount of moisture retained in an animal muscle tissue containing meat having no alkali-silicates therein. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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- 41. Meat comprising uncooked animal muscle tissue protein, water and an amount of an alkali silicate effective to enhance the moisture retention of the meat, wherein said amount of said alkali silicate is greater than or equal to about 0.1% w/w alkali silicate concentration in said meat.
- 46. A method for retaining moisture in uncooked meat comprising using an amount of sodium metasilicate to contact said meat, whereby said amount of sodium metasilicate is effective to enhance the moisture retention of said meat and is greater than or equal to about 0.1% w/w alkali silicate concentration in said meat.
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49. An animal protein-containing food product, comprising animal protein, water and an amount of an alkali silicate effective to enhance the moisture retention of the food product, wherein said amount of said alkali silicate is greater than or equal to about 0.1% w/w alkali silicate concentration in said animal protein-containing food product, wherein said alkali silicate comprises one or more of anhydrous sodium metasilicate and anhydrous potassium metasilicate, and one or more of sodium metasilicate pentahydrate and potassium metasilicate pentahydrate.
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