“…In this sense, numerous studies have been conducted and demonstrated that a process with mild protein oxidation, at a very low oxidant concentration, for example, <1 mM H 2 O 2 , could enhance the gel properties of MP by changing the mode of myosin aggregation, which was ascribed to the shift of myosin cross‐linking in the early stage of heating from head–head association to prevalently tail–tail aggregation through disulfide bonds. While a process with excessive oxidation tended to cause larger protein aggregates, which were morphologically incapable of generating a fine gel network and instead generated a porous coagulum (Chanarat, Benjakul, & Xiong, 2015; Fu et al., 2019; Li, Li, Wang, Zhang, & Xie, 2014; Wang, He, Gan, & Li, 2018; Wang, Xiong, & Sato, 2017; Zhang et al., 2020). To elucidate the structure‐modifying effect of oxidation on the susceptibility of pork MP to MTG at 0.6 mol/L NaCl (equivalent to about 2% to 3% salt in processed meats), Li, Xiong, and Chen (2012) found that a mild oxidation process promoted the MTG‐mediated cross‐linking of MP, while a strong oxidation process inhibited the MTG effect.…”