Triglyceride fat

US7524524B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Unilever Bestfoods, North America division of CONOPCO, Inc. · US

Inventor

• Eckhard Floeter · Vlaardingen, NL

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 10, 2003
• Grant date: Apr 28, 2009
• Expiry date: May 6, 2025

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C12N15/8775
• WIPO field: Pharmaceuticals
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A fat suited as fat phase for the manufacture of low fat spreads which are stable at elevated ambient temperatures which fat comprises a mixture of triglycerides, in which—2.5 to 5.5 wt. % of the triglycerides are HHH triglycerides,—25 to 65 wt. %, preferably 25 to 55 wt. % of the HHH triglycerides are monoacid triglycerides and the remaining HHH triglycerides are composed of mixed fatty acid residues,—1.5 to 5 wt. % of the triglycerides are HHM and HMH triglycerides,—at least 85 wt. % of the fatty acid residues H in HHM and HMH are palmitic acid residues, where H denotes saturated fatty acid residues having chain lengths larger than 15 carbon atoms and M denotes saturated fatty acid residues having chain lengths of either 12 or 14 carbon atoms and where the M-residue is placed either in the middle or in one of the terminal positions. Such fat phase can be obtained by incorporating in a triglyceride oil a fat A and a fat B where the fat A and the fat B together amount to 6-15 wt. % of the fat and the A/B weigh ratio is in the range 1/9 to 4/6, characterized in that of fat A—at least 50 wt. % of the triglycerides are fully saturated—at least 80 wt. % of the constituting saturated fa…