Quality of low fat pork sausage containing milk-co-precipitate

Low fat pork sausages were prepared with minced pork, spices, salt and tetra sodium pyrophosphate. Milk co-precipitate (MCP) obtained from skim milk was added at 0-2% levels as fat replacer and a suitable formulation was arrived at by evaluating physico-chemical and sensory parameters. The formulation with 1% MCP had higher flavour, juiciness and overall acceptability scores than others. The sausage with 1% MCP also had better emulsion stability, lower fat content, better cooking yield and lower cholesterol content compared to control.