By mixing fish gelatin and kappa-carrageenan one might be able to identify new and improved gelling systems (Haug, Draget, &
Smidsrod, 2003). Before such a system can be developed and commercialized it is important to know the behavior of the mix-tures with different composition in meat products (chicken ball).
Finding the optimum critical values of the processing variables that maximize the mixture of hydrocolloids properties should be a high priority process. Response Surface Methodology has been re-ported to be an effective and powerful tool for optimization of a process when the independent variables have a combined effect on the desired response. RSM is a collection of statistical and
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mathematical system that has been successfully used for devel-oping, improving and optimizing such processes (Bostan, Razavi, &