High molecular weight linked esterified propoxylated glycerins useful as gelling or thickening agents

US5516544A · kind A · utility

Assignees

• Arco Chemical Technology, L.P. · US
• CPC International, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Bernard C. Sekula · Hackettstown, US
• Michael Ferenz · Essen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 3, 1994
• Grant date: May 14, 1996
• Expiry date: Nov 3, 2014

Classification

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

Abstract

Reduced calorie food compositions are prepared using linked esterified alkoxylated polyol fat substitutes comprised of polycarboxylate linking segments, polyol segments, and C.sub.6 -C.sub.24 monocarboxylic fatty acid-esterified oxyalkylene segments, and, optionally, oxyalkylene segments between the polycarboxylate linking segments and the polyol segments. The fat substitutes are obtainable by alkoxylating a polyol such as glycerin with an epoxide such as propylene oxide and esterifying the resulting alkoxylated polyol with both a polycarboxylic acid or an equivalent thereof and a C.sub.6 -C.sub.24 monocarboxylic fatty acid or an equivalent thereof, either simultaneously or sequentially.