A RESTRUCTURED MEAT PRODUCT

摘要

A method for preparing a restructured meat product from meat parts. The method involves i) pulling apart the meat parts into meat sub-parts; ii) mixing the meat sub-parts with a treatment composition including salt to improve coherence between the meat sub-parts; iii) portioning the meat sub-parts to obtain a desired volume of meat mass; and iv) shaping the meat mass into restructured meat product having the desired shape and thickness. Importantly the pulling apart of the meat is performed by pulling longitudinally along the muscle fibres to achieve meat sub-parts which have retained their surface proteins required for binding to adjacent meat sub-parts.