
What is a meat emulsion?
The meat emulsion is a structure composed of water, fat, ground meat (finely cut), salt, phosphate, and may also include other products of animal and/or vegetable origin, such as powdered milk, whey, sodium caseinate and/or potassium, soy derivatives (isolate, concentrate or flour), blood plasma, cereal starches, starches, among others. The emulsion is a complex with a discontinuous phase (fat), a continuous phase (water) and an emulsifying agent (protein). The fat particles are suspended in an aqueous matrix that is trapped by soluble proteins (mainly actin, myosin and myoglobin) and in which final stabilization is achieved through the formation of gels.
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