METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF FISH MEAT POWDER RETAINING FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF FRESH MEAT

• Main Authors: KAI, FUMINDO, ISHIDA, KAZUYOSHI, ISHIOKA, YOZO, KUMAZAWA, EITARO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 24.04.1979
• Subjects: CHEMICAL RIPENING OF FRUIT OR VEGETABLES; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; HUMAN NECESSITIES; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; PRESERVING, e.g. BY CANNING, MEAT, FISH, EGGS, FRUIT,VEGETABLES, EDIBLE SEEDS; THE PRESERVED, RIPENED, OR CANNED PRODUCTS; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES

METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF FISH MEAT POWDER RETAINING FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF FRESH FISH MEAT A fish meat powder retaining the functional characteristics of fresh fish meat is obtained by mincing fresh fish meat or frozen SURIMI (frozen ground fish meat) to from a sol having fine air bubbles uniformly distributed therein, foaming the resultant fish meat sol under a vacuum and drying the fish meat foam in the form of a thin sheet at low temperatures. This method enables fish meat powder to be obtained by a process which does not involve excessive energy utilization and which does not result in the distruction of the useful characteristics found in the fish starting material.