US 12,458,032 B2
Comminuted meat products and apparatuses and methods for producing comminuted meat products
Nicholas A. Roth, North Sioux City, SD (US)
Assigned to empirical foods, inc., North Sioux City, SD (US)
Filed by Empirical Innovations, Inc., Dakota Dunes, SD (US)
Filed on Oct. 11, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/963,407.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/398,524, filed on Aug. 16, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0057643 A1, Feb. 22, 2024
Int. Cl. A23L 13/60 (2016.01); A22C 17/00 (2006.01); A23D 9/05 (2006.01); A23L 5/20 (2016.01)
CPC A22C 17/0026 (2013.01) [A23D 9/05 (2013.01); A23L 5/20 (2016.08); A23L 13/60 (2016.08)] 7 Claims
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1. A method for producing a raw comminuted meat product, the method including:
(a) receiving a stream of input material including pieces of meat;
(b) separating a first material and a second material from the stream of input material so that the first material and second material are separate from each other, the first material including liquified meat fat and being substantially free of lean meat and the second material including raw lean meat;
(c) forming meat fat granules from a portion of the first material; and
(d) combining a quantity of the meat fat granules at a meat fat blending temperature with a quantity of the second material at a lean meat blending temperature to produce a target comminuted meat product having a target lean point.