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health risks related to the consumption of
Beef and mutton fats are used for specific high-fat foods has led the food industry to
processed meat products when pork fats develop new formulations or modify tradi-
are excluded for sociocultural or religious tional products to make them healthier. The
reasons. Spices can be added to mask their most common of these modifications has
strong flavor and taste. It is usual to use pork been fat reduction (Papadima and Bloukas
fat as it is almost odor- and flavorless and 1999). This is achieved by the use of leaner
largely available. meat raw materials and by substituting fat
The combination of the four main factors with water and other ingredients such as
described above can explain the behavior inulin (Jimenez-Colmenero 2007). Significant
of the different pork fat tissues used to cholesterol reduction (20%–50%) can be