PREPARATION OF FIBROUS FOOD

PURPOSE:To prepare a fibrous food easily bondable in an assembly, having improved sense of eating, and capable of retaining improved quality and sense of eating even formed into a can or retort food for storage, by extruding a kneaded meat into an aqueous solution of a protein denaturing agent in the form of a dough sheet. CONSTITUTION:1-10wt%, preferably 2-4wt%, based on various marine or domestic animal meats, common salt is added thereto, and various food additives are then added thereto. The resultant mixture is then kneaded to give a kneaded meat, which is then extruded through a slit with a gap of 1.0-4.0mm. gap and about 50-300mm. width into an aqueous solution of a protein denaturing agent, e.g. tannin or nicotinic acid, in the form of a dough sheet, which is if necessary washed with water and cut by a cutter into filamentary materials of noodle strips. The filamentary materials are then bonded to one another while adding a binder if necessary thereto. The resultant assembly of the filamentary materials is then heated.