formulating with fiber
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Meat, Poultry & Fish:
Fiber can be added to a variety of non-standardized meats including sausage, ground chicken and beef, breaded chicken nuggets, processed meats, vegetarian meat substitutes, etc.
Benefits of adding fiber to meat products:
Functional:
- Improve yield/reduce cook loss
- Decrease cost
- Improve shelf life (stability under heat lamps or on steam tables and reduce purge)
- Process improvement
- Improve texture/increase juiciness
Health:
- Increase total dietary fiber content
- Decrease calorie content
Please refer to our bulletins for further information. Or visit our product pages to learn more about oat fiber, soy fiber, cellulose fiber and pea fiber.
Bulletins:
SunOpta’s Family of Fibers Offers Processors A Way to Increase Yield and Cut Costs
Advantages of Insoluble Fiber in Meat Applications
Hot Dogs - Yield Improvement, Cost Reduction
Pork Sausage Patty with Oat Fiber 610
Sausage Patty - Pork, Reduced Fat
SunOpta’s Applications Team has many years of experience formulating with fiber; you can contact our application technologists at applications@sunopta.com.
