Sausages: Nutrition, Safety, Processing and Quality Improvement

• Other Authors: Carballo, Javier (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Research & information: general; Biology, life sciences; Food & society; meat products; antioxidant; antimicrobials; shelf-life; plant extracts; pomegranate; cured meat products; smoking; chemical hazards; polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs); food safety; food quality; lactic acid bacteria; fermented sausages; ecology; breed; breeding system; dried Chinese sausage; fat replacement; mango peel pectin; microwave-assisted extraction technique; Italian-type salami; ostrich meat; sodium reduction; fat reduction; starter cultures; meat processing; probiotic; dry fermented sausages; healthy meats; lactobacillus; Lactobacillus sakei; sugar metabolism; amino acid metabolism; 1H-NMR; flow cytometry; ḥalāl salami; ḥalāl assurance; authenticity; staphylococci; fermented meats; high-throughput sequencing; microbiota; food reformulation; healthy meat product; game meat; fatty acids; volatile compounds; sensory properties; Galician chorizo; Staphylococcus equorum; Staphylococcus saprophyticus; physicochemical characteristics; free amino acids; free fatty acids; biogenic amines; n/a
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Sausages are privileged foods due to their diversity, nutritional value, deep roots in the culture of the peoples and economic importance. In order to increase the knowledge and to improve the quality and safety of these foods, an intense research activity was developed from the early decades of the past century. This book includes ten research works and a review showing important and interesting advances and new approaches in most of the research topics related to sausages. After an editorial of the Editor reflecting the aims and contents of the book, the initial five chapters deal with microbiological issues of the sausage manufacture (characterization and study of the bacterial communities of sausages, study of the metabolism and the technological and safety characteristics of concrete microbial strains, and use of starter cultures to improve the sausage quality). Chemical hazards also receive some attention in this book with a chapter on the optimization of the smoking process of traditional dry-cured meat products to minimize the presence of PAHs. The partial or total replacement of the traditional ingredients in sausages with unconventional raw materials for the obtaining of novel and varied products are the subject of three chapters. Next, a chapter is dedicated to another interesting topic, the search and the essay of natural substitutes for synthetic additives due to the increasing interest of consumers in healthier meat products. The book ends with an interesting review on the safety, quality and analytical authentication of halāl meat products, with particular emphasis on salami.