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Extrusion cooking

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Preferred term

meat extender  

Subject

  • Food sciences and technology

Example

  • Proteins may be textured in the extrusion cooking environment and one of the early innovations of extrusion technology was to use soya proteins to make fibrous, meat-like structures. They were originally marketed as meat substitutes but are more commonly used as meat extenders. (Source : INRA)

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URI

https://opendata.inra.fr/CUEX/32

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