The utilization of fish protein, from species of low commercial value or subproducts of industrialization, became a promising alternative for the food products development with high nutritive quality and economically feasible. The goal of this work was to obtain a Fish Protein Base (FPB) wich allowed preparation of different flavors of hamburgers. Whting Cynoscion striatu was used, due to the availability and low cost of raw material. The eatable part, essentially muscle, was submitted to successive washes to remove dissolvable matter and peculiar smell, maintaining under control the following variables: solvente, solute/solvent, time, temperature, agitating pattern and number of washing cycles. The raw material and FPB were characterized by their physical-chemical and microbiological properties. The statistic treatment, through factorial analysis, verified the conclusion that is possible to obtain an FPB, without the flavor or the peculiar smelling of fish, handling one part of solute for every two parts of solvent, independent on time and washing cycles. The FPB was utilized to elaborate six different types of hamburgers. By sensory evaluation, using hedonic scales for flavor, the acceptance of all these products was observed, without specific preference for one or another. The experimental results lead to the conclusion that whiting FPB, can be used to elaborate hamburgers with good sensorial and nutrition atributes.
Fish; Proteins; Hamburguers
