Several commercial brands (between 5 and 7) of fourteen types of different CMP were purchased in Spanish retail shops. These meat products were manufactured from different entire pieces, such as ham and shoulder from pork and breast and thigh from poultry (Table 1). The common ingredients in this type of products are water, NaCl, nitrites and/or nitrates, spices, starch, modified starch, thickeners and sugars. Table 1 summarizes the information about the meat origin (pork or poultry) of each sample. The samples were analysed before 48 h of storage at 4 ± 1 °C. All the CMP were subjected to each type of physicochemical and textural analysis.