摘要 |
<p>The invention concerns the field of manufacture of apparatus for automatic production of sausages. The invention concerns a coated food product, in particular a sausage, a composition for coating a food product, a method for coating food products and an apparatus for implementing said method. The method comprises the following successive steps: shaping a sausage of raw meat, mince or paste by passing it through a tubular mould (2); cutting up the sausage into segments whereof the ends are preferably rounded; moving the segments (45) while coating them with a first composition (8) containing sodium alginate, so as to coat the segments with a film of said first composition; contacting the coated segments with a second composition (44) containing a calcium salt so as to form a calcium alginate gel coating the segments.</p> |