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To review, categorize, and compare the bottom-up and top-down processing technologies used to create fibrous, muscle-like structures in meat analogues.

August 20, 2018Trends in Food Science & TechnologyOpen Access

Structuring processes for meat analogues

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To review, categorize, and compare the bottom-up and top-down processing technologies used to create fibrous, muscle-like structures in meat analogues.
Classified structuring technologies into bottom-up assembly of structural components versus top-down force-field structuring of biopolymer blends.
Evaluated techniques across ingredient selection, equipment requirements, structural fidelity, process robustness, scalability, and resource efficiency.
Assessed analytical methodologies used to characterize fibrous anisotropy and structure formation during processing.
Bottom-up strategies achieve the closest mimicry of muscle meat by assembling structural elements into hierarchical fibrous networks, but face scalability and throughput challenges.
Top-down strategies provide superior resource efficiency and industrial scalability, though fibrous alignment occurs primarily across macroscopic length scales.
Analytical tools successfully evaluate static microstructural anisotropy, but dynamic in situ methods are critically needed to monitor structure evolution during ongoing processing.

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Review demonstrates bottom-up and top-down structuring strategies for meat analogues, highlighting trade-offs between microscopic resemblance and industrial scalability.

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Dekkers et al. (2018) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d75889b1cb92dd1bb8a902 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tifs.2018.08.011

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Review demonstrates bottom-up and top-down structuring strategies for meat analogues, highlighting trade-offs between microscopic resemblance and industrial scalability.

Structuring processes for meat analogues

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