Lever Brothers Company

Cornelis Poot

Freek Reckweg

Janos Bodor

Jan Van Heteren

Charles C Verburg

Hans Robert Kattenberg

Bertus Marinus Van Bodegom

Avril Brown MacNeill

Douglas Chater Kirton

Murray F Stewart

Edible water-in-oil emulsion spreads with good organoleptic properties, particularly with regard to release of salt, are produced by incorporating in the emulsion at least 1 wt. % of native starch granules or agglomerates of native starch granules in the crystalline state, 80-100% of said granules having a diameter of less than 25 microns.

Edible water-in-oil emulsion spreads containing discrete granules or

New polyglycerol fatty acid compositions wherein the polyglycerol moiety predominantly consists of di-, tri- or tetraglycerol, the fatty acid residues have a chain length of 16-18 carbon atoms and are substantially fully saturated and the degree of esterification ranges from 80 to 100%. Said compositions are particularly useful for producing margarines and low-fat spreads having improved butter-like properties and a reduced tendency to develop graininess.

Polyglycerol esters

The invention provides a fat product especially suitable for preparing margarines and low fat spreads of improved butter-like properties, particularly in respect of plasticity and oral melt. The fat product comprises an olein fraction of a co-randomized fat blend which contains 30-46% of palmitic acid residues and 42-62% of cis-mono- and all-cis-poly-unsaturated fatty acid residues with a chain length of 18 carbon atoms.

Fractionated co-randomized fat blend and use

The invention provides fat blends e.g. suitable for preparing margarines containing high porportions of palm-based fats, partly in co-randomised form, the fat blends having a ratio of PUP:PPU triglycerides of less than 2.8, the Sa.sub.3 content being greater than P.sub.2 U-8.

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