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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 1991
Filed:
May. 02, 1989
Bobby R Johnson, Cherry Hill, NJ (US);
Joseph A Conte, Jr, Waterford, NJ (US);
Campbell Soup Company, Camden, NJ (US);
Abstract
A process for the production of low-cholesterol milk fat wherein the milk fat is separated into at least one aqueous fraction and a cream fraction. The cream fraction is washed and reseparated a plurality of times to provide a washed cream fraction containing substantially undisturbed milk fat globules and substantially intact milk fat globule membranes. Cholesterol is preferentially extracted from the milk fat globule membranes with an organic polar solvent and without substantial loss of the solid milk fat. Solvent-free, low-cholesterol product is recovered from the reseparated, washed cream fraction. This low-cholesterol milk fat product has composition and organoleptic characteristics substantially similar to those of natural milk fat. The invention also relates to a low-cholesterol milk fat product having composition and organoleptic characteristics substantially similar to those of natural milk fat and produced by the method of this invention.