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Rainer Von Kries

Manfred Biermann

Norman Milstein

Peter Leidl

Achim Ansmann

Rolf Kawa

Gabriele Strauss

Helga Gondek

Andreas Sander

Franz Timmermann

Wolfgang Adams

Juergen Gierke

Rolf Gaupp

A food additive useful for lowering serum cholesterol in humans contains a sterol or stanol ester of a fatty acid or a dicarboxylic acid ester of a sterol or stanol made by reacting a sterol, stanol and a carboxylic acid in the presence of an effective amount of a catalyst selected from the group consisting of calcium oxide, calcium hydroxide, a calcium salt of a carboxylic acid, magnesium hydroxide and combinations thereof described herein below.

Food additive compositions containing sterol esters, solubilizing agents, dispersants and antioxidants

Processes for preparing sterol esters

Sterol esters as food additives

A process for making synthetic triglycerides involving: (a) providing a reaction component selected from the group consisting of glycerol, a triglyceride, and mixtures thereof; (b) providing a fatty acid mixture containing at least 50% by weight, based on the weight of the fatty acid mixture, of conjugated linoleic acid; (c) providing an inert gas atmosphere; (d) combining the reaction component with the fatty acid mixture, in the inert atmosphere, to form a reaction mixture; and (e) heating the reaction mixture to a temperature of from 180 to 240&deg; C., at a heating rate of from 0.5 to 3 K per minute, thus forming the synthetic triglyceride.

Conjugated linolenic acid-based synthetic triglycerides

Polyolpolyhydroxystearates

Polyglycerol polyricinoleates

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