Asahi Denka Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Asahi Denka Kogyo K.k.

Kazuo Itagaki

Nozomi Yasuda

Shouji Maruzeni

Hideo Yokobori

Masatoshi Wada

Kimio Terada

Yasuo Toyoshima

Toshiyuki Hirokawa

Susumu Satoh

Toshimichi Yanagihara, Deceased

Tadasu Itoh

The confectionary fat composition according to the present invention comprises from 20 to 80% by weight of deodorized cocoa butter and from 20 to 80% by weight of hardened fat(s) having a melting point of 45.degree. C. or lower. The method for producing the confectionary fat composition according to the present invention comprises melt-mixing from 20 to 80% by weight of deodorized cocoa butter with from 20 to 80% by weight of hardened fat(s) having a melting point of 45.degree. C. or lower and then rapidly cooling and kneading the obtained mixture.

Confectionary fat composition and method for producing the same

A fat and oil composition which is suitably used in chocolates and comprises from 10 to 90% by weight of the following fat and oil (A) and from 90 to 10% by weight of the following fat and oil (B):

Fat and oil composition

A hard butter of the present invention is obtained by adding 0.05 to 20% by weight of polyglycerol fatty acid ester(s), which is prepared by binding four or more moles in average of fatty acid(s) to polyglycerol(s) having five or more in average of hydroxyl groups, to a hard butter. With the use of the hard butter of the present invention, the anti-blooming properties of a chocolate are enhanced with little limitation on the composition of the same. In particular, chocolates containing trans and lauric hard butters can be more freely compounded thereby than in the case of conventional ones.

A blooming resistant chocolate

The hard butter of the present invention comprises a fat which is obtained from the pericarp of the Chinese tallow tree by extraction optionally followed by fractionation and has a solid fat content of 80% or more, 60% or more and 0.5% or less at 20.degree. C., 30.degree. C. and 40.degree. C., respectively. And the other hard butter of the present invention comprises 5 to 95% of the pericarp oil as defined above and 95 to 5% by weight of one or more fats selected from among, for example, sal fat, fractionated sal fat, fractionated shea fat, kokum fat, mango kernel fat, fractionated mango kernel fat and illipe fat.

Hard butter

A cocoa butter substitute comprises sal fat obtained by extracting the fat from the seeds of Shorea robusta and then refining the resulting product. The cocoa butter substitute has a hydroxy value of not more than 16, a solid fat index of not less than 48 at 30.degree. C., a cooling time, at which the maximum point appears in the cooling curve, of not longer than 120 mins. and the maximum point temperature of not less than 17.degree. C.

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Kazuo Itagaki