Investigation into the development and quality of pork balls with varied proportions of
barley flour and tapioca flour from 0:100 to 100:0, and amounts of pepper between
0.8, 1.0 and 1.2 percentage revealed that the pork balls prepared with barley flour and
tapioca flour at 25:75 percentage, and 1.2 percentage pepper were the most
acceptable. The study of shiitake mushroom used for pork substitute of between
0:100 to 25:75 percentages showed that a 15:85 formulation was the most acceptable.
In storage, sensory acceptance and pH tended to decrease, but microbiological
counts increased in control and selected pork ball formulations after storage at 4 oC
for 4 weeks.