Soy Protein And Bionic Food

Soy Protein And Bionic Food

Soy protein is a high-quality plant protein with a complete range of amino acids. It contains all kinds of amino acids necessary for the human body and can significantly reduce blood cholesterol. Long-term consumption of soy protein can reduce the incidence of coronary heart disease. Soy protein is a soy product such as soy protein concentrate, soy protein isolate and extruded soy protein extracted from low-temperature desolvated soybean meal. Soy protein can be applied to a variety of food systems by using its excellent functional properties.

Bionic food, also known as artificial food, is the result of the application of bionic technology in the food industry. It simulates natural food in shape, flavor or nutrition, making the product convenient to eat, nutritious and healthy, and low in price. Soy protein is a commonly used additive or raw material for bionic food. By using its good functional properties, it can significantly improve the taste of food, increase the elasticity, water retention, chewiness of food, etc., and at the same time reduce production costs.

Classification of bionic food.

According to the nutrients contained in the natural food to be imitated, and ordinary food containing similar ingredients as raw materials, various foods are made by bionics. Bionic food has developed rapidly abroad. In China, bionic food has developed from simple appearance bionics and flavor simulation to functional bionics and bionic research stages of processing process.

1. Bionic marine food.

Bionic marine food is a new type of food with flavor, taste and nutritional value similar to natural marine food, which is made from marine resources as the main raw materials through food processing technology. It is made of low-value fish and shrimp as the main raw materials, and then added with auxiliary materials such as soy protein, egg white, cheese, seasoning, pigment and adhesive, and processed through protein pretreatment, seasoning, molding and other processes.

2. Bionic meat products.

The plant protein is rehydrated, dehydrated and then wired. At the same time, a certain amount of water, starch, seasoning, spices, flavors and pigments are mixed into a uniform slurry with a mixer, and then mixed with plant protein, and processed into protein bionic meat products through molding, steaming or frying. Common bionic meat products include bionic ham, bionic ham sausage, bionic meatballs, bionic block meat products, etc.

3. Bionic fermented food.

Bionic fermented food refers to a kind of biological food that is easily absorbed by the human body by processing and pretreating food raw materials by using the metabolic activities of microorganisms to simulate the specific biological transformation process in nature or the human body under artificial control conditions. In recent years, the bionic fermentation method has been used in the manufacture of pollen food. Under artificial control conditions, the lactic acid bacteria separated and screened from the hive are used to simulate the temperature and humidity in the hive to ferment and break the pollen wall to obtain artificial bee food. This product provides people with a new bionic food. Due to its low water content, it is conducive to extending the shelf life of the product.

4. Bionic preserved fruit.

Bionic preserved fruit refers to a product processed by using plant tissue protein as the main raw material, through processes such as deodorization, sugaring, flavoring, coloring, drying, and sterilization. The preserved fruit produced by this process is sweet and delicious and rich in nutrition. The development of bionic preserved fruit provides a new way for the deep processing of soy protein products.