However, Ishizaki et al. (1993)
applied UV irradiation to pork meat pastes and then heated the
irradiated mince to prepare mince gels.They observed that the UV
irradiation of meat pastes improved the gel strength signi cantly,
because of an increase in the elasticity and viscosity
From the
breaking force, breaking strain, and gel strength values, 7 kGy ir-
radiated gel was found to be the best gel in this study.