A process for prepacking fresh meat to enhance and improve the consistency of its quality at the point of retail sale, and to increase the shelf life of the meat, such process including the steps of treating the meat with an aqueous solution containing three active components, and then packaging the
A process for prepacking fresh meat to enhance and improve the consistency of its quality at the point of retail sale, and to increase the shelf life of the meat, such process including the steps of treating the meat with an aqueous solution containing three active components, and then packaging the meat in a controlled gaseous atmosphere containing from about 20 to about 80 percent carbon dioxide, and from about 2 to about 30 percent oxygen, with the balance being nitrogen. The solutions active components include certain phosphate compounds and a reducing agent which is selected from the group consisting of ascorbic acid, isoascorbic acid, or the sodium and potassium salts of these acids, and reductic acid. The third ingredient is either citric acid or tartaric acid, or ethylenediaminetetracetic acid, or an alkali metal salt thereof, functioning as a sequestering agent.
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A process for the pre-packing of sub-primal fresh pork cuts sized for sale to the consumer in order to enhance and extend the color shelf-life and the microbial shelf-life of the cuts, and to improve the organoleptic qualities of the cuts, without selective pre-screening based upon chemical testing
A process for the pre-packing of sub-primal fresh pork cuts sized for sale to the consumer in order to enhance and extend the color shelf-life and the microbial shelf-life of the cuts, and to improve the organoleptic qualities of the cuts, without selective pre-screening based upon chemical testing to determine the pH of the cuts or other properties, which process comprises carrying out two steps in sequence as follows: contacting the fresh pork cuts with an aqueous solution which contains: (a) a phosphate compound selected from the group of phosphate compounds which includes the alkali metal orthophosphates, the alkali metal pyrophosphates, the alkali metal tripolyphosphates and the alkali metal hexametaphosphates, said phosphate compound being used in an amount of from about 0.1 weight percent to about 2.0 weight percent of the fresh pork cuts so treated and contacted; (b) a reducing compound selected from the group consisting of ascorbic acid, iso-ascorbic acid, the alkali metal salts of said acids, and reductic acid, said reducing compound being used in an amount which is from about 0.01 weight percent to about 0.1 weight percent of the total weight of the contacted and treated fresh pork cuts; and (c) a sequestering agent selected from the group consisting of citric acid, tartaric acid, ethylenediaminetetracetric acid, and the sodium and potassium salts of such acids, so as to place in the thus treated pork, from about 0.01 weight percent to about 0.2 weight percent of the sequestering agent; then thereafter packaging the thus treated pork cuts in a controlled gaseous atmosphere which includes, in gaseous admixture, from about 2 percent to about 25 percent oxygen, and from about 20 percent to about 80 percent carbon dioxide, with the balance being nitrogen, whereby the properties of the thus treated and packaged fresh pork cuts are improved and remain good for a period of at least about 21 days, and so that the pork cuts have a color shelf-life of at least about 21 days, and a microbial shelf-life which is at least as long as the color shelf-life, so that there is no masking of bacterial spoilage resulting from a longer color shelf-life than microbial shelf-life, and so that all of the cuts so treated have substantially uniform shelf-life properties and substantially uniformly good organoleptic properties, regardless of the pH condition of the chops at the outset of the treatment.
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