Biomimetic vegetarian minced meat products are made of plant raw materials as the main protein and oil, supplemented by other ingredients and food additives, and learn from the processing methods of traditional minced meat products, such as vegetarian meat sausages, vegetarian meatloaf, vegetarian meatballs, vegetarian luncheon meat, etc. High-quality vegetarian minced meat products have similar texture and taste to traditional minced meat products, and are nutritious, healthy and easy to eat, providing an ideal choice for transforming the traditional meat consumption pattern.
In China's traditional food processing, dried tofu, gluten, mushrooms, etc. are often used to prepare vegetarian meat food, which can not only imitate the eating characteristics of meat, but also have their own special flavor and health care effects, and are deeply loved by the people. For example, the traditional vegetarian chicken in China is based on dried tofu with shover leaves, and after some cooking and seasoning, it can achieve the effect of vegetarian imitation meat. It has been reported that mushrooms such as bamboo sunflower, chicken leg mushroom, and king oyster mushroom are used as raw materials, and soybean protein, starch, rapeseed oil and other auxiliary materials are added after mashing, and then processed by chopping, drying, and molding to make vegetarian preserved meat, vegetarian ham sausage and other products, which not only have the fragrance of mushrooms, but also have the taste and texture similar to meat products.
Konjac gum is a kind of food additives, which can be used in the processing of minced meat products, with superior gelling, binding, thickening and water-holding effects, and reasonable use can significantly improve the texture and taste of minced meat products. There are 45 kinds of food thickeners allowed in China's national standard GB 2760-2014 "National Food Safety Standard for the Use of Food Additives", which are all plant-derived or microorganic-derived polymer polysaccharide substances except gelatin, and there are many hydrophilic groups in the molecule, which are easy to produce hydration and have strong water holding capacity.
The use of a food thickener in minced meat products often has various technical or economic shortcomings, and through a reasonable colloidal compound, various food glues can be complementary or synergistic, so as to expand the use of thickeners and improve their use functions. For example, vegetarian meat powder is made of natural plant food ingredients, which has a significant texture improvement function.
Vegetarian Meat Powder Ingredient Characteristics:
1. This product is a natural plant food ingredient, which is suitable for simplified labeling or clean labeling;
2. In meat filling products, increase elasticity, enhance chewiness, smooth surface, inhibit starch regeneration and slag, improve water retention capacity, and reduce costs.
3. In frozen conditioning products, increase brittleness, enhance elasticity, improve starch powder feeling, and make finished products resistant to freezing and boiling, improve quality and reduce costs.
Reference range: hot pot ingredients, conditioned meat products, meat enema, rice and flour products, etc.
China's soybean protein, peanut protein, vegetable oil, hydrocolloid and other resources are abundant, the public has a high acceptance of vegetarian products, vegetarian minced meat products in China's market prospects, and the industrial development potential is huge. For the development of vegetarian meat products in China, the safety of product production is the foundation, and delicious taste and suitable taste are two important factors to promote sustainable consumption. The domestic food industry should assess the situation, seize the consumer's demand for health and vegetarian food to accelerate the improvement, organize forces to increase research and development efforts, solve a series of theoretical and technical problems in the processing of bionic vegetarian minced meat products as soon as possible, and develop high-quality vegetarian minced meat products with Chinese dietary characteristics.