Assorted sliced cured meats on a wooden board.

Encapsulated Starter Culture Replacement.

The traditional process of making semi-dry sausages uses fermentation to deliver a unique flavor, texture and appearance.  Maybe more importantly, this process also provides ambient stability for ready to eat meat.  

Fermentation requires a microorganism starter culture, sugar, and plenty of time to lower the meat pH. The starter culture consumes the available sugar over many hours, producing acid as a byproduct. This process can often take 8+ hours. 

Imagine what removing your fermentation step and removing the sugar from your meat snack will enable you to do!

Features and Benefits.

With MeatShure® encapsulation technology, the desired pH is achieved without the need of the lengthy fermentation step, starter culture, or added sugar.

MeatShure® prevents

“Fatting-out” by protecting proteins from denaturation caused by raw acids 

Purge, occurring when a raw acid is added to raw meat 

The need for fermentable sugar 

MeatShure® promotes

Increased production capacity

No timely fermentation step required 

Process flexibility 

MeatShure® provides

Flavor customization with various acid options

Consistent & reliable control of flavor profile 

Improve production

Increased capacity 

More flexibility in hold times  

Maintain higher quality texture in cooked meat 

Reduce Processing TIme

Eliminate starter culture and bulking agents

Eliminate fermentation stage 

Eliminate fermentable sugar 

Precise dose-response control of pH

Provide a hurdle to unwanted microbial growth by lowering the pH

Our Brand Solutions.

Imagine what removing your fermentation step and removing the sugar from your meat snack will enable you to do! Discover our MeatShure® encapsulated acids.

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