The paper examines in turn consumer demand for fresh and nourishing products, the application of new processing technologies to meet consumers demands as well as the nutritional value of meat products. The article focuses more on the nutritional importance of meat products based on animal by-products. The article contradicts the notion that these by-products of animal origin can not be fully utilized in order to obtain a food product. The conclusion is that both meat by-products and their products are a real source of precious nutritional and therapeutic factors, the protein nutritional value being much higher than that of meat.