Back to results
US 12,096,783 B2Granted
Emulsified food composition
AssigneeConopco, Inc.
InventorsJulius Wouter Johannes de Folter, Sabrina Silva Paes, Petrus Wilhelmus N de Groot, Stephan Georg Schumm
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A food composition in the form of a water-in-oil-in-water emulsion, the food composition comprising water, an oil phase comprising vegetable oil and fat crystals, and an oil-in-water emulsifier, and a process for preparing the same.
Claims15
A food composition in the form of a water-in-oil-in-water emulsion, the food composition comprising:
- Water,
- Oil phase comprising:
- Vegetable oil,
- Water-in-oil emulsifier consisting of fat crystals, wherein the fat crystals are present in an amount of from 0.5 to 15 wt %, based on the weight of the oil phase, and the fat crystals are fat that are triglycerides or mixtures of triglycerides that crystalize at a temperature of between 58 and 72° C.,
- wherein the oil phase is present in an amount of from 5 to 76 wt %, based on the weight of the composition,
- Oil-in-water emulsifier, in an amount of from 0.2 to 6 wt %, based on the weight of the food composition, wherein the oil-in-water emulsifier comprises less than 5% phospholipid based on total weight of the oil-in-water emulsifier,
- wherein the composition comprises less than 0.2 wt % monoglycerides based on the oil phase, and
- wherein the composition is free of polyglycerol polyricinoleate.
5 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.