Patent ID: 8728551

Claim:
A method for producing a fish product, wherein the fish product resembles a slice of natural fish in appearance and texture, the method comprising: a step of combining and mixing at least 0.01 percent by weight up to but not including 0.05 percent by weight of a protein cross-linking enzyme with ground fish meat to prepare a first ground-fish-meat material paste; a step of combining and mixing at least 0.05 percent by weight up to but not including 1.0 percent by weight of the protein cross-linking enzyme with ground fish meat to prepare a second ground-fish-meat material paste; a step of combining and mixing at least 1.0 percent by weight up to but not including 2.0 percent by weight of the protein cross-linking enzyme with ground fish meat to prepare a third ground-fish-meat material paste; a step of laminating a first paste consisting of the first ground-fish-meat material paste, a second paste consisting of the second ground-fish-meat material paste, and a third paste consisting of the third ground-fish-meat material paste in this order, to make a laminated material; and a step of heating the laminated material.