Fuji Oil Company Limited

Hideki Baba

Hirokazu Maeda

Yoichi Tashiro

Yoshitaka Ebihara

Hiroshi Hidaka

Akira Kurooka

Haruyasu Kida

Hidenobu Matsunami

Hiroshi Sakka

Toshitaka Okawauchi

Atsushi Nago

Yasushi Kawabata

Tetsuya Uchiyama

Akira Doi

Hirosi Sugihara

Masako Arai

Junji Kanegae

Mayumi Yamaguchi

Ichiro Sohara

Yoshiko Kamuro

Kohei Obatake

Yohichi Tashiro

Yoriko Minamikawa

Chocolate having excellent hardness and melting properties in the mouth upon eating at a temperature range of freezing or refrigerating is disclosed. The chocolate is subjected to tempering treatment and has a softening point of 15.degree. to 30.degree. C. Its fat ingredient comprises 95 to 40% by weight of fats rich in 2-unsaturated-1,3-disaturated triglycerides (SUS) the main constituent fatty acids of which are palmitic acid (P) and stearic acid (St) with a P/St ratio of at least 1.0 and 5 to 40% by weigh of lauric fats, the relation of P/St ratio of SUS to the fat content in the chocolate being on or in the higher fat content region above line 1 as shown in FIG. 1.

Chocolate

Process for producing food using chocolate

A process for producing water-containing chocolate by admixing a chocolate mix subjected to rolling and conching according to the conventional method and an aqueous ingredient in the presence of a nut paste, or sugar fatty ester having a low HLB such as 1 to 3 the main constituent fatty acid of which is that having 20 to 26 carbon atoms to emulsify the mixture into a water-in-oil type one is disclosed.

Process for producing water-containing chocolate

Shortening for a hard butter product which comprises crystallized fat composed of as a main ingredient 1,3-saturated-2-unsaturated triglyceride the total carbon atoms of the constituent fatty acid residues of which are not less than 50, and main crystals thereof being of their stable type. There is also disclosed aspect of the present invention is a process for producing a hard butter product which comprises adding the above shortening to a molten mixture of hard butter ingredients during cooling and solidifying of the mixture without melting crystals of the shortening.

Shortening for hard butter product and process for producing hard butter

A hard butter composition suitable for the production of solid chocolate having soft mouth feel at the beginning of mastication and sharp melting in the mouth, while it can provide sufficient shape retention at an ordinary temperature. The hard butter composition comprises at least 85% by weight of a triglyceride component mainly composed of triglycerides having one unsaturated bond in one molecule and triglycerides having at least three unsaturated bonds in one molecule, and at most 15% by weight of a nontriglyceride component based on the total weight of said composition. SFI of the composition is at most 65% at 5.degree. C., 20 to 55% at 30.degree. C., 2 to 35% at 35.degree. C., at most 3% at 40.degree. C., and difference between SFI at 5.degree. C. and that of 25.degree. C. being at most 15%.

Hard butter composition

A fat which comprises a soft fat obtained by fractionation of laurin fat having an iodine value of 30-40, a melting point of not higher than 15.degree. C., and SFI of 10-30 at 5.degree. C., 0-20 at 10.degree. C., 0-10 at 15.degree. C., and 0 at 20.degree. C. A food containing the same is also disclosed.

Fractionated soft laurin fat and food containing the same

A process for producing fat powder which comprises contacting a fat or oil in the form of liquid drops in an atomized state with air flow at a low temperature, the fat or oil containing a non-oil soluble natural solid material uniformly dispersed therein.

Process for producing fat powder

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Hideki Baba