FOOD PRODUCT MANUFACTURE METHOD Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC A23L3/00 

FIELD: food industry.

SUBSTANCE: method envisages primary treatment of meat of animals or poultry or fish, portioning, imparting the preset geometric shape in the form of a sphere or cylinder or pyramid or cube or parallelepiped and freezing with cooling gradient equal to 0.9-1.0°C/min till the product surface layer temperature is equal to minus 2.0°C. Then the product is placed into flexible bags of a thermally-resistant material in an amount of 9.0-10.0 g of the product weight per 1 cm² of the flexible bag area, subjected to vacuum treatment with vacuum gradient equal to 1.5-2.0%/sec. till the vacuum value is equal to 97-99.9%, sealed and thermally treated at a temperature of 55.0-70.0°C during 13-25 minutes. During thermal treatment of the raw material components, saturated steam, in an amount ensuring relative humidity in the apparatus equal to 100%, is constantly supplied into the apparatus operation chamber. The food product ready for consumption is sold to consumers or cooled with cooling gradient equal to 0.9-1.0°C/min to a temperature equal to 3.0-5.0°C and placed for storage as a semi-product; before consumption it is heated up to the required temperature.

EFFECT: preservation of nutritive and biological value of the ready product and manufacture of food products with preset geometric shape.

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