Cured Meat

A popular snack or sandwich ingredient, cured meat is a meat that has been preserved through ageing, drying, canning, salting, brining or smoking. Curing the meat not only slows spoilage, it also adds flavour and texture. 

Cured meats can include salami, jerky, biltong, chorizo and more. Because of its status as a “ready to eat snack” there are extensive risks from pathogens and micro-organisms with the preparation and sale of cured meats, with this in mind quality control procedures need to be very stringent. 

Enhance the shelf-life of your Packaged Cured Meats with Gas Flushing 
Meat producers and processors deal with a wide array of nutritional, authentication, and safety challenges. They need to quickly analyse meat to determine whether it meets exacting specifications. By analysing fat, moisture, ash, protein, and collagen, manufacturers can modify meat toughness, texture, and more. With the correct analysis, meat can be segregated by quality to optimise profitability and develop more consistent products.

Mätt Solutions offers a specialist range of instruments that can verify the quality of fresh as well as value added meat products such as cold cuts, minced meats, salami, jerky or biltong. 

 

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