EXTRUDED FOOD PRODUCT, ITS PRODUCTION METHOD AND EXTRUDER FOR PRODUCT MANUFACTURE Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC A23J3/00 

FIELD: food industry.

SUBSTANCE: invention is intended for usage in food industry and refers to production of an extruded food product containing from nearly 25% to nearly 77% of meat and/or vegetal protein. The method envisages continuous introduction of the food product components into the extruder, such components including meat and/or vegetal protein, their mixing in the extruder to produce a mixture, the mixture heating in the extruder, the food product extrusion through the forming die and the food product cooling. The product may additionally contain plastifiers and, essentially, may not contain compounds forming cross links. The extruder has a high value of "length to diameter" ratio and contains a row of cylinders, twin screws rotating in the cylinders round parallel axes and heating devices mounted on the cylinders.

EFFECT: inventions group ensures production of a product being a meat analogue or substitute and having a fibrous and texturised appearance specific to meat.

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