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US 12,565,470 B2Granted
Method of producing a low glycidol monoglyceride composition and the low glycidol monoglyceride composition as such
AssigneePalsgaard A/S
InventorsLars Preuss, Andrea Höhnke, Claus Hviid Christensen
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Abstract
The present invention pertains to a method of producing monoglyceride compositions having a low glycidol content. The invention furthermore pertains to such monoglyceride compositions which can be obtained by the method.
Claims27
A method of producing a monoglyceride-containing product comprising at least 90% w/w monoglyceride and having a content of glycidol equivalents of at most 10 ppm, the method comprising
- step i) of thermally treating a first monoglyceride-containing composition (mcc1) comprising at least 25% w/w monoglyceride and a total content of glycidol equivalents of at least 15 ppm, said thermal treatment involves heating the monoglyceride-containing composition to a temperature in the range of 90-210 degrees C. for a duration sufficient to reduce the total content of glycidol equivalents by at least 50%, and/or
- step ii) of contacting a second monoglyceride-containing composition (mcc2) comprising at least 25% w/w monoglyceride and a total content of glycidol equivalents of at least 15 ppm with a solid acidic material.
A monoglyceride-containing product, comprising:
- at least 90% w/w monoglyceride,
- a content of glycidol equivalents of at most 10 ppm,
- and having:
- a peroxide value of at most 10 meg/kg.
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