The higher concentrations of green tea extract increased the level of
MHC cross-linking, and especially non-reducible protein cross-links
were found to be partly responsible for the MHC polymerization
in meat emulsions added 500 or 1500 ppm green tea extract, with
1500 ppm generating more non-reducible cross-links than 500 ppm
green tea extract. Especially for the meat emulsion added 1500 ppm
green tea extract, the involvement of thiols in this polymerization was
indisputable, taking the observed very low overall thiol concentration
into consideration. It should be mentioned, though, that 1500 ppm is
an extremely high concentration of green tea extract with regard to
meat product production, but the high concentration levelwas included
in the study to investigate the impact of extreme concentrations on the
textural and oxidative stability of meat emulsions.