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Meat. Chapter 9. Meat: Color . Myoglobin – meat heme-pigment color Purplish-red Hemoglobin – blood pigment Oxymyoglobin – air combines with meat Bright in its oxidized form Metmyoglobin – major discoloration Ferrous to ferric state
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Meat Chapter 9
Meat: Color • Myoglobin – meat heme-pigment color • Purplish-red • Hemoglobin – blood pigment • Oxymyoglobin – air combines with meat • Bright in its oxidized form • Metmyoglobin – major discoloration • Ferrous to ferric state • High temperatures,microorganisms and light speed the reaction
Changes During Cooking • Color changes • Surface browning • Maillard Browning – carbonyl-amine browning • Dehydration – crystallization
Changes During Curing • Traditional curing Add salt, sugar and sodium nitrate • Changes to a form that remains red during cooking
Meat:Flavor • Browning flavors • Proteins • Animal diet
Meat:Texture • Tenderness and Ease of Chewing • Dependent on water and water binding capacity • Muscle Fibers • Connective Tissue • Collagen • Elastin • Reticulin Fibers • Fat • Carbohydrates
Post-Mortem Aging • Rigor Mortis • Decreased pH – drops from 7 to 5.5 • Changes in Quality
Processed Meats • Comminuted Products • Restructured Products • Precooked Products
Processes to Tenderize Meat • Mechanical Methods • Enzymes • Other Methods • Salts • Change the pH • Marinade – Acid
Textured Vegetable Proteins • Soy Proteins • Hydrophilic Nature
Poultry Chapter 10
Poultry: Quality Attributes • Color • Dark Meat – • More Myoglobin and heme proteins • Light Meat • Less Myoglobin and heme proteins
Textured Vegetable Proteins • Soy Proteins • Hydrophilic Nature
Textured Vegetable Proteins • Soy Proteins • Hydrophilic Nature
Poultry: Flavor • Browning Compunds • Lipids • Warmed over flavor – rancidity
Poultry: Texture • Dark Meat more juicy • Aged Birds are less tender
Fish • Structure • Myofibrils • Fibers lie parallel to each other • Myotomes or flakes • Divided by sheets of connective – myocommata • Connective tissue softens and the cells separate
Fish: Processing • Surimi • Seafood Analogs
Textured Vegetable Proteins • Soy Proteins • Hydrophilic Nature
Textured Vegetable Proteins • Soy Proteins • Hydrophilic Nature