Animal products are very nutritious and filling, giving people high-quality protein, vitamins, unsaturated fatty acids, and other essential nutrients. In the human diet, meat plays a significant role. To draw customers, meat products created from various types of meat must demonstrate creativity in their tasting and coloring. The use of natural coloring not only satisfies the pursuit of visual appeal, but also provides consumer safety.
Types of Meat
Meat is very important to humans, and meat includes both raw meat and meat products. Meat products are cooked meat products or semi-finished products made from livestock, poultry and seafood, which are seasoned with different raw materials and processing methods to produce different flavors of products. Natural coloring adds visual appeal to meat products and the antioxidant properties of some natural colorings can increase the shelf life of the food.
Raw Meat Products
Meat color and its stability is one of the important quality indicators of fresh beef and a key factor influencing consumer choice to purchase. Oxidation of myoglobin can affect the color of raw meat. The use of antioxidant natural pigments can maintain good color in raw meat products.
Cooked Meat Products
Cooked meat products are the fresh meat by the sauce, brine, smoke, grilled, pickled, steamed, boiled and any one or more processing methods and made directly edible meat processing products. The color and luster of cooked meat products is an important factor, and it is generally believed that good color and luster represent better quality products. Therefore, the appropriate use of natural colors can increase the attractiveness of meat products.
Meat Analogues Products
The current mainstream artificial meat is plant protein meat, which needs to be extracted from traditional plant protein processing. For artificial meat, it is necessary to be closer to the color of real meat in order to gain the favor of the market. Good, normal meat color can well stimulate consumers' desire to buy. The addition of a variety of natural colors can bring a different innovation to artificial meat.
Seafood Products
In many frozen surimi products, food coloring is often added to mimic the color of meat or shellfish and lobster. The processing of such seafood products, storage conditions, type of packaging and interactions with other foods can be a challenge for color retention. Therefore, a wide range of natural colors for these products can bring more opportunities.
Edible Meat Casings
Natural colors are used to color edible meat casings to improve the physical appearance of such meat products and also to restore color loss during thermal processing. Well-colored sausages and other meat products are more attractive for consumers to buy. A variety of natural colors are available to color the different edible meat casings.
Daji Belle has many natural colors that come from plants, insects, microorganisms and more. Here you can find a very wide range of color combinations. For different food processing processes, we can offer different natural coloring products for use in meat products. With these natural colors, food companies can create more products to increase their competitiveness in the meat market.
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