Patent ID: 7833563
Filing Date: 2010-11-16
Classification: A23J,A23L

Abstract:
1. A process for the manufacture of intermediate food products in a form of hydrated concentrates of myofibrillar proteins from fish flesh, said process comprising the following steps: preparing an initial pulp of minced fish flesh from fish fillets; washing said initial pulp with water; adjusting pH of said water to maintain said pulp at substantially neutral pH throughout the process; said washed pulp is refined in the wet state by removing a fraction of impurities; the refined pulp is mixed until it is in a form of a homogeneous emulsion; the emulsified pulp is drained to produce a densified pulp; cryoprotectants are added to the densified pulp to form a final pulp suitable for freezing; the final pulp is packaged in a form of blocks; and said blocks are frozen,