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Research Project: New Technologies to Improve and Assess Meat Quality in Muscle Foods

Location: Food Quality Laboratory

Project Number: 1275-41000-005-00
Project Type: Appropriated

Start Date: Jul 02, 2004
End Date: Jul 01, 2009

Objective:
The primary goal for this project is to develop a pressure based technology that will improve the quality of fresh, frozen or further processed muscle food products to fully achieve their value-added capabilities. Specific objectives are: (1) Develop non-explosive, non-pyrotechnic pressure technologies that will improve the quality of fresh and frozen meat products using hydrodynamic pressure processing (HDP) technology as the benchmark pressure application, (2) develop pressure technologies that will improve the quality and shelf-life of further processed meat products and fully achieve the value-added capabilities of these technologies. Evaluate the effect of these technologies with companion preservation technologies being evaluated in the unit's food safety research project, and (3) characterize the alterations in molecular and structural properties of meat products subjected to the technologies developed and described in objective 1.

Approach:
The effect of pressure on fresh and frozen/thawed muscle tissue will be characterized using biochemical, physical and chemical properties to determine their relationship with exposure to pressure in order to ascertain the correlation to successful meat quality enhancements (e.g., tenderness). The application of pressure processing to finished processed meat products either to raw ingredients before processing or directly to the finished product to determine where pressure processing would be most beneficial to enhance quality and shelf-life and fully achieve value-added benefits. Using hydrodynamic pressure processing as the benchmark pressure application, non-explosive, non-pyrotechnic pressure technologies will be developed and evaluated for successful quality improvements of fresh and frozen meat products.

   

 
Project Team
Solomon, Morse
Bowker, Brian
 
Project Annual Reports
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Publications
   Publications
 
Related National Programs
  Quality and Utilization of Agricultural Products (306)
 
Related Projects
   Computational Modeling of Quality Changes in Meats During Hydrodynamic and Hydrostatic Pressure Processing
 
 
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