FIELD: food industry.
SUBSTANCE: invention is intended for usage in food industry during production of compositions having a meat-like appearance. The compositions contain nearly 40-90% of functional proteins, nearly 0.05-2% of one or several cross-linking agents and nearly 60-10% of a meat suspension where the meat suspension contains meat and one or several moistening plasticisers, the ratio of meat to the moistening plasticiser being nearly 20:80 to 80:20. The composition is produced by way of heating of a pre-conditioned mixture of food components under pressure with subsequent extension of the heated composition till the food composition obtainment.
EFFECT: invention provides for new food compositions having a realistic meat-like appearance, tangible properties and a structure.
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