Plant-based alternatives to sausages don’t always replicate the textures of meat products – testing the mechanical properties of the foods explains why and might help narrow the textural gap between the two.
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Mimicking the mouth’s mechanical properties in the lab helps explain why plant-based sausages don’t quite feel the same when you eat them as meat-based ones – while also providing tips that could help make their texture more meat-like. Despite recent improvements, plant-based sausages are still very different from meat versions in the eyes – and the mouths – of many people. But because the ways that sausages interact with the mouth and taste buds are so complex – not to mention the molecular complexity of the sausage itself – working out how to make plant-based alternatives more meat-like is a difficult task.
These findings could lead to different ingredients being used in plant-based sausages. Solid vegetable fats – which are already added to some meat-free products – could be used more widely to mimic the friction properties of the animal fats in meat sausages, which are solid at room temperature. Sunflower proteins, meanwhile, are relatively elastic among plant proteins and could be used to mimic the elasticity of meat sausages.
“It is critical for the advancement of this area to have fundamental polymer scientists applying their techniques and knowledge to understand plant-based foods, since these are extremely complex materials, both compositionally and structurally,” says
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