Research Article

Effects of the Use of Staphylococcus carnosus in the Curing Process of Meat with a Reduced Amount of Sodium Nitrite on Colour, Residue Nitrite and Nitrate, Content of Nitrosyl Pigments, and Microbiological and the Sensory Quality of Cooked Meat Product

Table 1

Formula of model meat product.

ComponentTreatment
CLLS

Pork meat (m. semimembranosus) (kg)100100100
Water/ice (kg)101010
Glucose (Cargill, Incorporated, Minneapolis, MN, United States) (kg)1.21.21.2
Sodium triphosphate (57% P2O5, BK Giulini Chemie GmbH & OHG, Ludwigshafen/Rhein, Germany) (kg)0.20.20.2
Sodium ascorbate (Hebei Welcome Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, Hebei, Shijiazhuang, China)0.060.060.06
NaCl (Salt Mine Kłodawa, Kłodawa, Poland) (kg)2.02.02.0
NaNO2 (Chempur, Piekary Śląskie, Poland) (kg)0.01150.00170.0017
Bacterial biomass S. carnosus ATCC 51365 with physiological salt solution (NaCl 0.9%) (kg)0.5
Physiological salt solution (NaCl 0.9%) (kg)0.50.5

C: control treatment, quantity added NaNO2 100 mg/kg; L: quantity added NaNO2—15 mg/kg; LS: quantity added NaNO2—15 mg/kg + S. carnosus ATCC 51365 in number 107 cfu/g.