Application of Vegetable Juice/Powder as Nitrite Substitute in Meat Products

Vegetable juice/powder is rich in nutritional ingredients, and its nitrite content is very low but high nitrate content.Meat products added vegetable juice/powder can exhibit all typical sensory properties of nitrite-cured meat products.Adding vegetable juice/powder can increase nutritive value of meat products, and is helpful to development of functional meat products.This paper summarized application and problems of vegetable juice/powder in processing of meat products.