food Marketing - Technology 6/2023

Processing
New Marination System Ensures
Premium Quality Ham
Leading food technology supplier
GEA has developed a system for
tenderizing meat that optimizes the
distribution of brine and provides
ham with better sliceability – not to
mention a reduction in slicing losses.
By using the GEA MultiCarve, an
innovative tenderizing process
between the injection and tumbling
stages, food manufacturers are
reproducing succulent ham products
that offer consistently high quality
characteristics like mouthfeel, taste
and texture time and time again, with
pork and poultry cuts.
Consumers are looking for ham that
is tasty, tender and in convenient
and cohesive slices. This is where
the GEA MultiCarve is proving to
be invaluable for pork and poultry
premium-ham-on-sandwhich
cold cut manufacturers. Following
injection, the meat that is to be used
for ham is put through a set of bladed
rollers, improving protein extraction,
exposing greater surface area and
releasing any tension within the meat,
resulting in a more succulent texture
and a well bonded product later on.
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This releasing of tension works
wonders for the meat. Being an
animal product, cuts of pork do vary
in terms of their fat to meat ratio, the
grain of the meat in each piece, the
tenderness and so on. By putting the
meat through the MultiCarve stage
before further processing, it can
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