Produção de salame tipo italiano com teor de sódio reduzido

Abstract

Salt addiction on types of food has been happening mainly on the processed food área, particularly on the meat industry. The relation between health and food consumption has been demonstrated by the scientific community. Consumers interested on food composition and on the impacts for health have been the reason for the development of competitive products with healthy properties. The sodium reduction on meat products is one of the many objectives of the meat industry. This paper has had as its objective to search for alternatives that may substitute sodium in Italian Salami that may feature it as a product with reduced sodium, with sensorial approval and without compromising the parameters in the Quality and Identity Rule Code and the microbiological legal ones. The sodium chloride (NaCl) was partially substituted by potassium chloride (KCl) and by combinations of KCl with calcium chloride (CaCl2) and magnesium sulfate (MgSO4). Also, the sodium nitrate (NaNO3) was substituted by potassium nitrate (KNO3) combined with KCl. It has been observed that in all procedures there weren t compromises of neither the technological process, nor the legal physicochemical microbiological parameters. However, all the procedures affected the sensorial quality, which has been evaluated by the attributes color, odor, flavor and texture. Among them the most affected one was flavor, followed by odor. The esthetic analysis of the results has shown that the substitution of 40% of NaCl by KCl, although obtaining inferior sensorial results to the control, has not obtained a significant difference, which levels at 5% related to it, being considered as accepted. The mineral analysis has shown that the 40% reduction of NaCl was enough to match additional nutritional information about sodium reduction and feature the product as having reduced sodium. The healthiness is a tendency and sodium and fat reduction on food are the priorities, soon consumers will have to adapt their taste to these changes, considering the search for health.