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• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A23—FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; TREATMENT THEREOF, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
  • A23K—FODDER
  • A23K10/00—Animal feeding-stuffs
  • A23K10/20—Animal feeding-stuffs from material of animal origin
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A23—FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; TREATMENT THEREOF, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
  • A23L—FOODS, FOODSTUFFS OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PREPARATION OR TREATMENT THEREOF
  • A23L13/00—Meat products; Meat meal; Preparation or treatment thereof
  • A23L13/60—Comminuted or emulsified meat products, e.g. sausages; Reformed meat from comminuted meat product
  • A23L13/67—Reformed meat products other than sausages

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• the invention relates to a process for producing a lumpy meat emulsion product, the starting materials being processed into a meat emulsion at temperatures below 50 ° C.
• Meat emulsions have long been used on a large scale in the food industry, especially in the field of pet food. There is a need to use the highest possible proportion of meaty raw materials, possibly in combination with vegetable proteins, since these are important nutrient carriers for protein, Represent minerals, trace elements, fat and vitamins, are highly compatible and highly digestible and at the same time very tasty and thus provide an optimal basis for sufficient nutrient absorption by the animals.
• a process for producing a meat emulsion product in which a meat emulsion of a certain composition is rapidly heated to temperatures above 100 ° C., preferably between 104 and 118 ° C. At this temperature, both the animal and the vegetable proteins in the emulsion coagulate and denature at a very rapid rate. The hot emulsion is then pumped into a process tube, in which it remains under excess pressure until the proteins have completely coagulated. The early coagulation and denaturation of the proteins in the emulsion has now proven to be disadvantageous for nutritional reasons.
• the fleshly raw materials lose a lot of texture in such a production process, which in the known process also entails an energy and labor-intensive process step of controlled evaporation of water present in the emulsion or additional injection of superheated steam to produce a layer-like structure however only moderate success will be tried again.
• the increase in the meat content in the emulsion mass beyond 80% leads to difficulties in the process control in the known processes, since in this case the emulsion mass can easily coagulate too quickly, which further adversely affects the text affects.
• the described disadvantages of the known product also directly affected its animal acceptance.
• the invention is therefore based on the object of creating a generic method which avoids the disadvantages of the prior art and enables simple and inexpensive production of lumpy meat emulsion products in which meat-based raw materials are valuable nutrient carriers, in particular for highly digestible protein by animal-adequate Piece size and bite resistance remain usable, at the same time the possibility of enrichment with supplementary nutrients and their conversion into an animal-appropriate form should be created.
• this object is achieved in that the meat emulsion is pressed through a gap between the plates of a high-speed emulsifier into a process tube and is thereby rapidly heated to 40 to 75 ° C., the proteins contained in the starting materials being essentially of animal origin and in terms of Temperature and duration show different coagulation behavior.
• the process according to the invention takes advantage of the fact that a significant proportion of the proteins of animal origin present in the starting materials are already at temperatures between 40 and 75 ° C. and beyond, with surprisingly positive effects on the texture and other nutritionally important properties of the end product coagulated in a much shorter time than vegetable proteins.
• the resulting product is comparable to natural pieces of meat and even superior after sterilization.
• the starting materials can even be exclusively of animal origin, a product is obtained which has an exceptionally high level of animal acceptance which is superior to all known products.
• the gap between the plates of the high-speed emulsifier is set to a width of 0.2 to 2 mm, preferably 0.6 mm.
• the invention further proposes to heat the meat emulsion in the high-speed emulsifier to 50 to 65 ° C.
• the heating is preferably carried out by mechanical energy, if necessary additionally by hot steam injection.
• the high-speed emulsifier can consist, for example, of a fixed plate and a very rapidly rotating plate, between which the gap mentioned is open. remains. Because of the viscosity of the emulsion mass, which depends, for example, on the proportion of dry constituents, the pumping speed and the distance between the plates, the resulting mechanical energy normally results in the emulsion heating to the desired temperature sufficiently quickly. If this is necessary, by changing the 'process conditions are no longer sufficient aus ⁇ , a further increase in temperature can be caused by short-term steam injection.
• the starting materials are not coagulated too early, ie before or directly in the high-speed emulsifier. It is therefore necessary that the temperature of the starting materials is kept below 50 ° C., preferably below 35 ° C., until it is pumped into the high-speed emulsifier.
• the partially coagulated emulsion mass in the process tube is continuously advanced by pumping the meat emulsion through the high-speed emulsifier in the process tube and emerges as a correspondingly thick strand at its end.
• Another embodiment of the invention provides that the product emerging from the process tube is cut into strands or pieces by knife blades.
• These knife diaphragms can either be attached in the end piece of the process tube or immediately afterwards. This involves tearing open the large product strand in one dimension, i.e. into several small product strands, as well then possible in the other dimension, that is to say correspondingly large product pieces.
• a special embodiment of the invention provides that the cut product is heated in an oven to a core temperature of 70 to 95 ° C., preferably 80 ° C.
• This step following the actual manufacturing process can be carried out both with the thin product strands mentioned above and with pieces already cut.
• the use of a continuous baking oven is particularly preferred, the residence time of the product therein being between 1 and 10 minutes.
• the residence time of the product therein being between 1 and 10 minutes.
• coagulate more proteins contained in the product namely preferably in the edge region of the strands and / or pieces.
• the result is a product that is more robust and resilient on the outside and that enables easier handling. This is particularly important with regard to the final filling, canning and sterilization.
• a further cutting of the product can take place after the furnace treatment, which, of course, if strands are still present, is an unavoidable step for the finishing of the product, this also resulting in smooth cut surfaces.
• the lumpy meat emulsion product produced according to the invention is clearly superior to all known products due to its texture and the associated improved bite resistance and juiciness, which is made possible by an increased retention of liquid, it being particularly noteworthy that these advantageous properties of the product by the final sterilization, in contrast to the normal behavior of meat-based raw materials, are not or only insignificantly impaired in this step. Thereby a significantly higher animal acceptance of the end product can also be achieved, which was impressively substantiated by feeding experiments.
• Fig. 2 shows an enlarged detail of the high-speed emulsifier.
• the resulting viscous dough has a temperature of about 30 to 35 ° C due to the mechanical stress.
• the meat emulsion is then pumped continuously by means of a poppy seed pump 1 at a pressure of 4 to 5 bar into a high-speed emulsifier 3 in which the temperature of the emulsion quickly rises to about 50 ° C. due to mechanical stress.
• an inlet opening 5 for superheated steam is provided.
• the high-speed emulsifier 3 is shown again enlarged in FIG. 2.
• the two plates 7 and 9 arranged therein can be seen, the lower plate 7 being stationary and the upper plate rotating at a speed of 1400 to 1500 rpm in the direction indicated.
• the emulsion mass entering from the left which has a temperature of approximately 35 ° C., is pressed into the approximately 0.6 mm wide gap between the plates, further emulsified there and at the same time heated to the desired temperature, so that the partial coagulation the emulsion mass takes place immediately after exiting the emulsifier (to the right in the illustration).
• the partially coagulated mass then enters the process tube 11.
• the process tube has a diameter of 10 cm and a length of 4 m.
• the passage speed of the emulsion mass is 1 m / min, so its holding time is about 4 min.
• the end of the emulsion strand is divided into thin strands by a corresponding knife aperture 13, which are placed directly on the belt 15 of a continuous baking oven 17.
• the strands are cut into appropriately dimensioned pieces after leaving the oven 17 by the cutting device 19 and finally together with an ent - Bottled speaking, canned and sterilized.
• the final oven treatment can also be omitted, the final coagulation of the product then taking place in the sterilization step, which is carried out at temperatures around 130 ° C.

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