Salts have a major effect on ionic strength, and could
extract myosin from myofibrillar structures in meat. Salts
could enhance swelling of the protein structure but they
(on their own) do not solubilize much protein (Knight and
Parsons, 1988; Ranken, 2000). On the other hand,
phosphates on their own hardly activate proteins; they
can only remove the link between actin and myosin
(Feiner, 2006). Thus, through the addition of salts
together with phosphates at the same time to a meat
product, the muscular protein becomes soluble and solubilized,
or activated; and the solubilized protein can
immobilize high levels of added water as well as emulsify
a large amount of fat