Vegetable proteins have made beneficial functionality advances in the
quality of product produced. Thus, allowing meat processors to incorporate
vegetable proteins into meat based nuggets, providing a nugget with added
nutritional value. Incorporating meat and vegetable proteins into a nugget can
cover up vegetable flavors and tastes which younger consumers may not like
and will allow them to receive the nutritional benefits which vegetables provide.
However, just mixing in vegetable proteins with the original formulation may not
produce a consumer acceptable nugget. When adding a new ingredient into a
current formulation many changes can be seen in the end product.