“…Polyphosphate treatment, most commonly consisting of a blend of sodium tripolyphosphate and hexametaphosphate, is a widely employed technique in the meat and seafood industry to preserve quality of food. It has been used to effectively enhance muscle juiciness and reduce drip loss and cooking loss during cooking, freezing, and frozen storage, where myofibrillar proteins readily denature and lose the majority of their water binding capacity (Dyer, Brockerhoff, Hoyle, & Fraser, ; Morey, Satterlee, & Brown, ; Woyewoda & Bligh, ; Sheard, Nute, Richardson, Perry, & Taylor, ). When properly used, polyphosphate treatment gives no flavor while retarding oxidative deterioration of muscle by chelating heavy metal ions (Lampila, ).…”