Pork : meat quality and processed meat products Pork: Meat Quality and Processed Meat Products delves into the various kinds of pork and their manufacturing processes. Each category has specific raw material pre processing (entire cut vs minced pork meat) ingredients (e.g. sodium chloride starter cultures blood seasoning and spices) processing conditions (such as salting drying thermal processing and fermenting stages) and consumption habits (cooking slicing spreading and as ingredient in meals for instance). Consequently a wide variety of pork meat products are currently been produced worldwide. However due to the modern eating habits the increasing importance between food composition and health among consumers and the demand for products with specific health benefits are factors that are influencing the research and production of pork meat products