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The product should be rapidly frozen to
and functionality of the protein at the junc- ≤–18°C and held at that temperature during
ture prior to heating. Purslow and his associ- storage and distribution (Booren and Mandigo
ates (Purslow et al. 1987; Lewis and Purslow 1987).
1990; Savage et al. 1990) demonstrated in a Cooked portioned restructured meats can
series of model studies that the binding of be packed in overwrapped trays or vacuumed
pieces in heated restructured meat was and/or gas-flushed in form/fill/sealed
affected by the muscle fiber alignment with pouches, blisters, shrink packs, and skin
respect to the adhesive junction and the size packs; their frozen counterparts, including
of the meat pieces. The authors observed that steaks, strips, or cubes, can be packaged in
the tensile adhesive strength of restructured bags, pouches, trays, overwraps, and PE-