Water-holding capacity and binding are reduced. If you look closely at the area surrounding the breakfast sausages there is a noticeable release of liquid. Both the sausages and the ham tend to fragment when they are cut.

The mechanism and reasons for these effects will become clear in Section (Science of Salt in Pig Meats).

Please note that the effect of low salt on product fragmentation in these cases is exaggerated by differences in manufacturing methods.

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