High pressure, at 250 and 400 MPa, for 10 or 20 min, was applied at either of two stages: during pre-treatment in acid at 10 8C to facilitate destabilisation of acid labile crosslinks, or during extraction in water at 45 8C to accelerate collagen hydrolysis. The resulting gelatins were evaluated in terms of yield of extraction, molecular weight distribution by SDS-PAGE, and viscoelastic propert...