摘要:
A food product comprised of solid pieces of meat and/or vegetables intimately mixed within a liquid phase gravy or sauce is made microbiologically stable at non-refrigerated storage conditions by immersing the solids phase in an excess of said liquid phase comprising an aqueous solution of stabilizing solutes to infuse a portion of the solutes into the solids phase to the extent of reducing the water activity of the solids phase to a level ranging from about 0.6 to about 0.9 and concurrently forming said surrounding liquid phase gravy to have residual stabilizing solutes such that the water activity of the liquid phase differs from the water activity of the solids phase by less than 0.1.