Blended Cheese and Meat Product

摘要

A pasteurized and blended cheese product containing fatty meat is described. The product includes a portion of natural cheese or a mixture of natural cheeses and an amount of meat provided as inclusions dispersed in the portion of the natural cheese or mixture of natural cheeses. The blended meat and cheese product includes low levels of emulsifying salts to stabilize the meat fat and moisture form the meat, but yet retain the organoleptic characteristics of natural cheese.

主权项

1. A pasteurized and blended cheese product containing meat, the pasteurized and blended cheese product comprising:
a portion of natural cheese or a mixture of natural cheeses; an amount of meat provided as inclusions dispersed in the portion of the natural cheese or mixture of natural cheeses, the meat including about 2 percent or more meat fat; emulsifying salts, but not more than about 0.7 percent emulsifying salts, so that the emulsifying salts preferentially emulsify the meat fat and water from the meat; and the pasteurized and blended cheese product is substantially free of added emulsifiers.