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USOO5676986A United States Patent 19 11) Patent Number: 5,676,986 Choudhury 45 Date of Patent: *Oct. 14, 1997 54 FOOD PRODUCTS MADE FROM PROTEASE 62-171657 1/1986 Japan. 61-1025463 2/1986 Japan. ENZYME CONTAINING FISH, METHODS OF 62-087072 4/1987 Japan. MAKING SAME, AND METHODS TO 1039978 2/1989 Japan. INACTIVATE PROTEASE ENZYMEN FISH 3007559 1/1991 Japan. 75) Inventor: Gour S. Choudhury, Kodiak, Ak. OTHER PUBLICATIONS 73) Assignee: University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Ak. Wang et al. 1955, “Enzymatic Tenderization of Meat”, Food Research Nov., Dec. pp. 587,597. * Notice: The term of this patent shall not extend “Is Alaska Flatfish Fool's Gold?", Seafood Leader, Nov./ beyond the expiration date of Pat. No. Dec. 1989, pp. 156-158. 5,518,741. Tettweiler, Peter, "Snack Foods Worldwide”, Food Technol ogy, vol. 45(2), Feb. 1991, pp. 58-62. (21) Appl. No.: 576,880 "Snack Food Month and New Snacks", Food Technology, 22 Filed: Dec. 21, 1995 Feb. 1991, p. 64. Lee, C. M. and Toledo, R. 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The 3,170,794 2/1965 Jeffreys et al.. present invention also relates to a method of making a food 3,516,349 6/1970 Bertullo et al.. product and includes reducing hydrolyzed fish muscle to a 4,207,354 6/1980 Haga et al. ............................. 426/643 powdered form, and then mixing the fish muscle in powder 4,816,278 3/1989 Sasamoto et al. 4,853,231 8/1989 Osajima et al. ......................... 426/63 form with a starchy and/or proteinaceous material to form a 4,861,602 8/1989 Uchida et al. .......................... 426/643 mixture which is subsequently subjected to high temperature 4,919,959 4/1990 Hosaka et al. extrusion processing to form a desired food product. The 4,935,192 6/1990 Porter et al. ............................ 426/643 present invention further relates to processes for tenderizing 4,950,494 8/1990 Katoh et al. or causing substantial or complete proteolytic degradation of 4,986999 1/1991 Takasaki et al. ........................ 426/643 animal muscle by applying onto the animal muscle, protease 5,223,301 6/1993 Kanda et al. enzyme obtained from fish having the enzyme present FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS therein. Also disclosed is the resulting food products result ing from these processes. 0.096902 A3 12/1983 European Pat. Off.. 0 157433A1 10/1985 European Pat. Off.. 0 190873 A2 8/1986 European Pat. Off.. 43 Claims, 5 Drawing Sheets FISHCONTAINING PROTEOLYCNZYMES CEANING PrototySIS POST.EXESPROCESSING HighPROTEIN FOXODINGREDENT eXTRUDEofood PRODUCTS FOOD PRODUCTS 5,676,986 Page 2 OTHER PUBLICATIONS Regenstein, J. M., et al., "Introduction to Fish Technology”, an Osprey Book, Van Nostrand Reinhold, pp. 126-131. 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