Advances on research and development of meat products compounded with fruits and/or vegetables

In order to promote the diversity of meat products,to expand the application field of fruits and vegetables,and to produce nutritional,functional,attractive and unique tasty meat products simultaneously,adding fruits and/or vegetables in meat processing to form meat products compounded with fruits and/or vegetables have become a new developmental direction for the meat processing industry with prosperous future. The meat product forms varies with the added mode,amount and processing route of fruits and vegetables. This mini-review paper summarized recent advance on meat products compounded with fruits and/or vegetables,including raw material research,exploration of new products,and key application technologies.Some of the major problems encountered in the research and development had been posed and their coping strategies suggested,so as to provide references for meat deep processing,full use of fruits and vegetables,and developing high-grade meat products compounded with fruits and/or vegetables.