Future Meat

The goal of the “Future Meat” project is to build on the results of the “Cleaner Meat” project to achieve a legally compliant, sensorially acceptable, and industrially scalable nitrite-free formulation for sausage products without “hidden” nitrate/nitrite, with Work Package 4 – Sensory Evaluation & Consumer Acceptance focusing on sensory parameters throughout the development process. In this work package, sensory comparisons between the nitrite-free and standard variants will be conducted to investigate the effects of the absence of nitrites on sensory characteristics such as taste, color, consistency, texture, and mouthfeel.