US 11,678,679 B2
Meat analogues and meat analogue extrusion devices and methods
Patrick Pibarot, Territet (CH); Christophe Joseph Etienne Schmitt, Servion (CH); Christian Sanchez, Montpellier (FR); and Marie-Héléne Morel, Montpellier (FR)
Assigned to SOCIÉTÉ DES PRODUITS NESTLÉ S.A., Vevey (CH); UNIVERSITE DE MONTPELLIER, Montpellier (FR); and INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE, Paris (FR)
Filed by Société des Produits Nestlé S.A., Vevey (CH)
Filed on Apr. 8, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/842,880.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/831,831, filed on Apr. 10, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0323238 A1, Oct. 15, 2020
Int. Cl. A23J 3/22 (2006.01); A23P 10/25 (2016.01); A23L 33/115 (2016.01); A23J 3/04 (2006.01); A23J 3/14 (2006.01)
CPC A23J 3/227 (2013.01) [A23J 3/04 (2013.01); A23J 3/14 (2013.01); A23L 33/115 (2016.08); A23P 10/25 (2016.08)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A meat analogue comprising:
a macrostructure of connected sheared fibers oriented substantially parallel to one another, wherein the macrostructure comprises meat, and further comprises an added insoluble particle; and
gaps positioned between the sheared fibers, wherein the gaps extend completely through the macrostructure, from a first side of the meat analogue to a second side of the meat analogue which is opposite from the first side, as channels connecting the first side to the second side.