Cooking losses ranged from 8.77% in sausages with 20% of fat
and 0.57% carrageenan (Id) to 12.66% in control sausages containing
10% of fat (C10) (Table 4). The carrageenan addition caused statistically
insignificant (0.7 – 2%) reduction of cooking loss in
sausages. Carrageenan addition in sausages led to slight improvements
in thermal stability, manifested by less leakage during heating
(P > 0.05). Fat reduction from 20% to 10% caused a significant
increase in thermal leakage from low-fat control (C10). Candogan
and Kolsarici (2003a) also noted that low-fat sausages, without
carrageenan had the highest weight losses during processing.
During 21 days of storage considerable changes in weight
caused by purge in the vacuum packages were noted. Control sausages
manufactured with smaller amount of fat (C10) had higher
weight losses than fat controls (C20). As reported by Lin, Keeton,
Gilchrist, and Cross (1988) reduction of fat:protein ratio in meat
which can reach ca. 35% with similar water contents, up to 75%