Asahi Denka Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Toshimichi Yanagihara, Deceased

Shouji Maruzeni

Nozomi Yasuda

Kazuo Itagaki

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

The blooming resistance improver of the present invention comprises an oleaginous composition containing 80 to 99% (by weight; the same will apply hereinafter) of fat(s) and/or oil(s), which contain 5% or more of fatty acid group(s) having 20 or more carbon atoms and show solid fat contents of 10% or above and 5% or above at 20.degree. C. and 25.degree. C., respectively, and a rising melting point of 25.degree. C. or above, and 1 to 20% of polyglycerol fatty acid ester(s). It exerts a remarkably high effect of inhibiting blooming on chocolates.

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Toride, Japan

Toshimichi Yanagihara, Deceased