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Data on the current production of whole- readily molded or shaped to meet a particular
tissue restructured meat products is difficult demand, and they can be manufactured to
to obtain or estimate. This is because most of resemble higher-priced cuts. Another advan-
the products are not identified as restructured tage of restructuring is that hot-boned pre-
during merchandizing. The difficulty of rigor meat can be cold-set restructured
obtaining data on restructured meats was without the need to wait for the meat to go
raised earlier by Secrist (1987) and more than into rigor to be firm enough to be sliced,
a decade later by Pearson and Gillett (1999). resulting in cost savings in time and space to
Some of the terminology used to describe the processor (Farouk et al. 2005b).