PMID- 34660655 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20211022 IS - 2296-861X (Print) IS - 2296-861X (Electronic) IS - 2296-861X (Linking) VI - 8 DP - 2021 TI - Improving of Gelling Capacity of Cooked Crab Meat Proteins. PG - 675362 LID - 10.3389/fnut.2021.675362 [doi] LID - 675362 AB - Cooked crab meat subjected to a cutting process can aggregate again, forming weak gels. The objective of this work was to determine the effect of two mixing methods, combined with the addition of the microbial enzyme TGase (MTGase) on the mechanical and functional properties of gels from washed or unwashed blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) meat. Live crabs were obtained from Laguna Madre, Tamaulipas, Mexico, and cooked at 120 degrees C for 20 min before hand-picking the meat from the shell. Cooked meat was processed by mixing and cut at temperatures of 25 or 60 degrees C, without (control) or 0.5% of MTGase. Then cooked at 90 degrees C for 15 min. Changes in texture profile analysis, percentage of extractable water, and color were evaluated. The mixing method at 60 degrees C allowed increasing the textural properties of the gels, and the addition of MTGase significantly improved the mechanical properties. The results allowed stablishing a viable technique to obtain restructured gels from cooked crab meat with no need to extract the soluble compounds responsible for their distinctive odor and taste which often affect the mechanical properties. CI - Copyright (c) 2021 Trejo-Diaz, Martinez-Maldonado, Uresti-Marin, Velazquez and Ramirez. FAU - Trejo-Diaz, Gabriela Nallely AU - Trejo-Diaz GN AD - Unidad Academica de Trabajo Social y Ciencias para las Humanidades, Universidad Autonoma de Tamaulipas, Ciudad Vic, Mexico. AD - Facultad de Nutricion, Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico. FAU - Martinez-Maldonado, Miguel Angel AU - Martinez-Maldonado MA AD - Centro de Fisica Aplicada y Tecnologia Avanzada, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Queretaro, Mexico. FAU - Uresti-Marin, Rocio M AU - Uresti-Marin RM AD - Unidad Academica de Trabajo Social y Ciencias para las Humanidades, Universidad Autonoma de Tamaulipas, Ciudad Vic, Mexico. FAU - Velazquez, Gonzalo AU - Velazquez G AD - Instituto Politecnico Nacional-Centro de Investigacion en Ciencia Aplicada y Tecnologia Avanzada, Unidad Queretaro, Queretaro, Mexico. FAU - Ramirez, Jose Alberto AU - Ramirez JA AD - Unidad Academica de Trabajo Social y Ciencias para las Humanidades, Universidad Autonoma de Tamaulipas, Ciudad Vic, Mexico. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20210930 PL - Switzerland TA - Front Nutr JT - Frontiers in nutrition JID - 101642264 PMC - PMC8514771 OTO - NOTNLM OT - crab meat OT - cutting OT - gelling OT - microbial transglutaminase OT - mixing COIS- The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. EDAT- 2021/10/19 06:00 MHDA- 2021/10/19 06:01 PMCR- 2021/01/01 CRDT- 2021/10/18 09:08 PHST- 2021/03/03 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/07/02 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2021/10/18 09:08 [entrez] PHST- 2021/10/19 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/10/19 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2021/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.3389/fnut.2021.675362 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Front Nutr. 2021 Sep 30;8:675362. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2021.675362. eCollection 2021.