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Impact of Extrusion Parameters on Textural and Sensory Characteristics of High-Moisture Meat Analogue from Mung Bean Protein and Wheat Gluten
 
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Food Science and Technology Program, Faculty of Agro-Industry, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla, 90110, Thailand
 
These authors had equal contribution to this work
 
 
Submission date: 2025-11-03
 
 
Acceptance date: 2026-05-11
 
 
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Kongkarn Kijroongrojana   

Food Science and Technology Program, Prince of Songkla University, 90110, Songkhla, Thailand
 
 
 
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A high-moisture extrusion process was used to produce plant-based meat analogues with fibrous structure. Mung bean protein isolate (MBP) and wheat gluten (WG) blend (70:30, w/w) were extruded using a co-rotating twin screw extruder. The optimization of extrusion parameters, including feed moisture content (55–65%, w/w) and barrel temperature (140–160°C), with respect to the textural properties and sensory characteristics of high-moisture meat analogue (HMMA) was investigated using central composite design. An increase in moisture content of the meat analogue led to a decrease in its firmness, hardness, and chewiness determined using instrumental analysis. These results were consistent with hardness, number of chews, and roughness scores evaluated by the trained panelists. Moreover, the microstructure and visual observations showed that fibrous alignment tended to become less compact and form finer strands with an increasing moisture content. However, the barrel temperature had no or slight impact on texture properties of the meat analogue. Acceptance test result revealed that the liking scores of all attributes tended to increase with an increasing extrudate moisture content. The optimized process conditions according to the maximized acceptance score included 65% feed moisture content and extrusion temperature of 140°C with 0.644 desirability. The acceptance scores of the resulting HMMA ranged from 6.4 to 6.7 on a 9-point hedonic scale.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors would like to thank the Faculty of Agro-Industry, Prince of Songkla University, for providing access to research facilities. The authors are also grateful to the National Metal and Materials Technology Center (MTEC) for assistance on in extrusion process.
FUNDING
This research was supported by the National Science, Research and Innovation Fund (NSRF) and the Prince of Songkla University (Grant No. AGR6505031C), and by the PSU-Graduate Studies Scholarship (PSU_PHD2563-04) and Overseas Thesis Research Grant for Graduate Students from the Graduate School (OTR 2567-003), Prince of Songkla University.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare that they have no conflict of interests.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The study involving human participants was reviewed and approved by the Research Ethics Committee under the Research and Development Office, Prince of Songkla University (PSU-HREC-2023-024-1-1).
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