Patent ID: 9700067
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: A23J,A23L

Claim:
1. A ground beef-like food product comprising: a) 0.1%-5% by weight of a heme-containing protein comprising an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to the polypeptide set forth in SEQ ID NO:4; b) a compound selected from glucose, ribose, fructose, lactose, xylose, arabinose, glucose-6-phosphate, maltose, and galactose, and mixtures of two or more thereof; c) at least 10 mM of a compound selected from cysteine, cystine, selenocysteine, thiamine, methionine, and mixtures of two or more thereof; and d) 10% or more by weight of one or more plant proteins, wherein the ground beef-like food product contains no animal products, and wherein cooking the ground beef-like food product results in the production of at least two volatile compounds which have a beef-associated aroma.