Title: Edible compositions having a meat flavor and processes for making same

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1. A process for altering the meat flavor of a foodstuff comprising adding to said foodstuff at least 0.2% by weight of a flavor imparting product produced by a process comprising (A) intimately admixing in the absence of any natural meat or poultry meat products other than an enzymatic digest of meat, a composition consisting essentially of (i) an enzymatic digest of meat produced by admixing from 0.1 up to 0.4% enzyme with meat at a pH of from 3 up to 6, at a temperature of from 40.degree. up to 75.degree. C for a period of from 10 hrs. up to 150 hrs., selected from the group consisting of mylase digest of turkey meat; mylase digest of chicken meat; mylase digest of beef; mylase digest of lamb meat and mylase digest of pork, (ii) L-cysteine hydrochloride and (iii) thiamine hydrochloride; said enzymatic digest of meat, said L-cysteine hydrochloride and said thiamine hydrochloride each being present in an amount sufficient to produce an intense meat flavor, the weight percent of cysteine based on enzymatic meat digest being from 2 up to 5%, the ratio of thiamine hydrochloride; cysteine hydrochloride being in the range of from 0.25:1 up to 1:1 (B) heating the resulting mixture at a temperature of from 100.degree. up to 350.degree. C, a pressure of from 1-10 atmospheres and for a period of time of from 0.2 up to 10 hrs. whereby a meat flavored product is produced; and (C) adding gum arabic to the meat flavor and spray drying the resulting mixture, the weight ratio of gum arabic to said meat flavor being from 0.2:1 up to 2:1 based on the solids content of the mixture prior to spray drying.
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Inventors: Chhuy, Lim Chheang (Bougival, FR)
Day, deceased, Edgar Allen (LATE OF Rumson, NJ, US)

Application Number: 451469
Filing Date: 1974-03-15
Publication_date: 1978-03-28
Assignee: International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (New York, NY)
Primary Class(es): 426/533 426/56, 426/656
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US Patent Ref:

2934437	Apr, 1960	Morton et al.	426/65.
3394015	Jul, 1968	Giacino	426/65.

Other Refs:
Primary Examiner: Jones, Raymond N.
Assistant Examiner: Kepplinger, Esther M.
Attorney: Liberman; Arthur L., Wolffe; Franklin D., Haidt; Harold