Sausages Essay

Sausages are one of the well-known western style meat based products throughout the Malaysian consumers. Sausages have accomplished popularity in Malaysia after being introduced in 1963 by the A&W fast-food restaurant (Babji et al., 1998). Commercial sausages produced in Malaysia, mostly in frozen form, are generally made from chicken, beef and fish. Sausages are also will be eaten with buns as a mixture in different kinds of daily soup or gravy. Sausages (frankfurters) are also popular as the food that ready-to-eat breakfast menu items among children. In the earlier days, chicken sausages production originated from small family-based enterprises. However, increasing demand for chicken sausages products in current year have changed chicken sausage manufacturing into large-scale production. A lot of factories have been established in Malaysia to increase output and to fulfil the increasing demand for chicken sausages manufacture. Per capita consumption of poultry meat is reported t 26.18 kg in 1999 and increased to 34.99 kg in 2008 (MOA,2009). There are small amount of other poultry are consumed among Malaysian such as duck and quail meat.

We had used Farm Gold Chicken Frankfurter for this sample. Nutritional facts states for every 100g of sausage that it have used Farm Gold Chicken Frankfurter has 158 kcal of energy, 18.3 g of carbohydrate, and 9.7 g of protein and 0.9 g of fats. The ingredient of this sausage are chicken meat, soy protein tapioca, palm oil and salt, and contains emulsifier (E399) preservatives, monosodium glutamate, and disodium 5-isonate, permitted flavour enhancer and permitted food