Reduced calorie triglyceride mixtures

US5456939A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Nabisco, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Edward L. Wheeler · Watertown, US
• Ronald P. D'Amelia · Hicksville, US
• Gilbert A. Leveille · Denville, US
• Michael S. Otterburn · Dover, US
• Lawrence P. Klemann · Somerville, US
• John W. Finley · Whippany, US
• Allan D. Roden · Noblesville, US
• Michael M. Chrysam · Blairstown, US
• Turiddu A. Pelloso · Carmel, US
• Peter Given · Ridgefield, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 29, 1993
• Grant date: Oct 10, 1995
• Expiry date: Dec 29, 2013

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S426/804
• WIPO field: Food chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Fat mixtures enriched with triglycerides having long, saturated, preferably C.sub.16 to C.sub.22, fatty acid residues and short, preferably C.sub.2 to C.sub.4, acid residues are employed in edible compositions as low calorie fats. The preferred embodiments comprise mixtures of at least two triglycerides bearing long residues (e.g. stearyl) and short residues (e.g. acetyl or propyl). In one preferred embodiment, each triglyceride contains short chain residues which are different from those in the other triglyceride. In another preferred embodiment, at least a portion of the triglycerides have two different short residues. Methods of using the low calorie fats and food products incorporating them, particularly in coating, shortening and margarine products, are disclosed.